Hi Leonard,
I stumbled recently upon an interesting article:
[http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/us-analysis.html]
I gave it a quick read, but was kind of disappointed with the approach
suggested, maybe it is good for business managers/marketeers, but it
seems to be too much of a quantitative approach to something that is
hardly quantifiable, if you ask me. I don't know what the idea is about
knowing that our competitors have a 3.4 as a mean navigation score. Does
this mean we should do better on this? Of course you can see where we
fall short, but in many cases this is probably obvious... (you are
giving some examples already in your e-mail below). Since no manager is
asking us for numbers, it is hard to make me enthusiastic about doing
the analysis as suggested.
However, it did inspire me. Maybe it is a good thing to have a look at
how some, or all, of our potential users are performing with our
competitors websites. Try to be one of them when you browse the
Microsoft Office website, the Apple Works site, the Corel Office site...
and then see what they are doing better/worse than you are.
I am short on time, but we could open a wiki page for writing such
document collaboratively (maybe including a basic competitive analysis
as outlined in the article you mentioned).
Especially dissatisfying remains the Extensions web-page. There were
some comments (both from me and other people) for that page, but little
happened, and most importantly, there are other things that look broken.
Actually, I am not sure whether the extension website efforts are
concentrated around this [EMAIL PROTECTED] group... I believe they should. A
more centralist approach is definitely wanted for OOo.
The main OOo page needs also a major revamp.
[I have added some comments on the wiki:
see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Pages_Requirements
Indeed, http://first4quality.co.uk/OpenOffice/ looks much better.]
Thanks for adding to the user page requirements, I hope more people will
add what they think... designing when ideas are laid out is definitely
better than designing with plans constantly changing ;)
(...)
skipped some of the valid points made about the extension page
(...)
I propose therefore the following time plan: (from - to)
I still have to see whether this work, but if you want to lead this a bit...
g.,
Maarten
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