Hello David, * ---
J David Eisenberg wrote:
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, :murb: [maarten brouwers] wrote:
Why this emphasis on explaining what is, at least I believe, a pretty
well known concept: 'Office suite' or 'Office package' or 'Office
tools'... it consists of an application that you can write with, you can
make calculations with, do presentations with and possibly keep your
stuff organized with. 'Math' and 'Draw' are two nice extras but the most
popular office suite today, 'MS Office', also has these features...
though not as separate programs, if I remember correctly. If the concept
is not well known, people can click on the underlined word 'office
suite' in the description [1]... so what is missing? You didn't respond
to my response to your comments at that time.
OK, click on "Office Suite." Your eye will be drawn immediately to the
large text:
OpenOffice.org 2 - Product Description
Aha! Wonderful! Now, the next paragraph tells nothing about what version
2 does. It only tells how it compares to Version 1. Well, maybe the
bulleted list will describe more specifics. No, it just talks about ISO
standards and how easy it is to use. At least I see that it has a
database. What about the next paragraph? It talks about licensing. Not
one bit of this tells me what the product DOES. Only when I'm three
fourths down the page do I see "What's in OpenOffice.org" and *finally*
see what is really a product description.
I think I'm going to agree with David on this one. The BIG new user
button doesn't really get new users *quickly* to anything useful or
friendly. Maybe what needs to happen is some of David's mockup page
http://oooweb.evc-cit.info/
needs to be incorporated into the current
http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/new.html
page. M
More to do for somebody? :)
I'm going back to the main Projects page now.
c'ya
>
I think your mockup adds lots of text that is also distracting to new
users... and how does explaining the concept of an Office suite at the
front page help end users? Please
It's not explaining what an office suite is; it's explaining what
components I get when I download OpenOffice.org.
What would be best is to do some usability testing: get people who have
never used OOo before, and put them in a room with a neutral third party
observing, and ask them to tell you what you get with OOo, just by using
the web site. See http://www.nedbatchelder.com/text/usability.html for
details on how to do this. Then we'd all have more facts to shout at each
other <grin/>
--
J. David Eisenberg http://catcode.com/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
==================================================
MzK
Kay Schenk
"Like Jesus said, 'Blessed are the nice'".
-- Ray Romano
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
