I agree, but One think is sure : We must try to do an ergonomic AND sexy interface. And a survey could help us find what people like.
Kévin 2011/11/25 Greg <noh.spam.j...@gmail.com> > I don't want to rain on your parade but (as a UX practitioner of 20 yrs), > surveys are almost the least effective means to validate a UI design, > especially if UI behaviour is included in the investigation. A dozen face > to > face interviews supported by static or even active prototypes, conducted > with > a variety of users would yield much more useful and reliable results. > > If you want to pat yourself on the back and tell everyone that 9 out of 10 > users prefer the new LibreButtonOMatic, then a survey will give you that > but > whether 9 out of 10 users actually do will be unrelated to that statistic. > > Surely the UXers in the team know people who use these type of products (in > fact a sprinkling of users of competitive products would add value). I'd be > happy to work with other UXers to plan the investigation and conduct a > couple > of structured interviews. > > Regards, > > Noh > > > Completely agree :) > > > > Alex > > > > ---- On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:38:22 +0100 Charles-H. Schulz > > <charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote ---- > > > > > > A survey would be a great idea; in fact, it would help with asking > > ourselves the right question for the spec; in short, it would be a real > > work of User Experience. > > > > Even better news: I think Christoph Noack and Bjoern Balazs know just > > how to set up such a survey, but I might be perhaps too optimistic :-) > > > > Best, > > > > Charles. > > > > > > On 25/11/2011 00:00, Kévin PEIGNOT wrote: > > > Maybe we could publish a survey asking, for each part of Citrus UI > > > (explained in a few word) what people think about it ? As we did > with > > our > first survey ? > > > > > > On each page a part of the survey, with a brief summary and if > > possible a > mockup. And why not at the end asking a "global > > impression" note. It's not > spec, but it permit to know what people > > think of the globals ideas ? > > > > Kévin > > > > > > 2011/11/24 Andrew Pullins <android2...@gmail.com> > > > > > >> Charles, Kevin, every one, > > >> > > >> > > >>> Citrus looks good. But as we explained, if there's no one > > wrting >>> specicications for eaxh part of citrus nothing will > > get done. >>> > > >> > > >> ok yes we do need to start on some specifications so that we can > > get >> started, but we have not talked about it all that much. > first > > we need >> to decide on what we all agree on and change what we do > > not. if we get more >> people to agree with some things I would > > start some specifications, but I >> still don't know exactly what > is > > needed to write one. could someone write a >> templet on what needs > > to be written. that would really help. till then >> there are still > > some people that have not said what they do not like about >> > > Citrus. if you wait any longer we'er going to have to just go with > Citrus. > > >> > > >> It looks like we need to blog so that people don't get their > hopes > > up. :-/ >> > > >> > > >> all the more reason to get this started NOW. and before you guys > > say it ONE >> MORE TIME. I know that we can not get this done in > one > > shot, and that we >> need to do this ONE STEP AT A TIME. but now > > that we have some press on this >> and people know that we are > > working on this we NEED to get things rolling. >> > > >> Andrew > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > > design+h...@global.libreoffice.org >> Problems? > > >> > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > >> Posting guidelines + more: > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: > > http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ >> All messages > > sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> > deleted > > >> > > >> > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
