Hi folks, I've been lurking on this list for a while - I'm an interaction designer with Red Hat; you might know me from my blog on Planet GNOME.
Over the past couple of weeks I've been working on putting together a usability testing plan for GNOME Shell. Since GNOME Shell is an environment rather than a particular application, it is an interesting usability test challenge to me - I'm used to testing applications and web sites. I just posted a blog post that should be hitting Planet GNOME soon about what I've been up to in this regard: http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/gnome-shell-usability-test-plan/ Here is an excerpt: "The GNOME Shell design is based upon a few assumptions about users’ desktop actions. While many of these assumptions are informed by seasoned, long-time GNOME hackers and designers working on it such as Owen and Jon, it’s important to define those assumptions and test them to make sure that they are valid. We wouldn’t want GNOME 3 and GNOME Shell to be built upon a shaky foundation. GNOME Shell is finally at the point where it’s stable and we’ve got enough functionality in place to run some tests on it." The test plan itself is in both wiki and PDF/ODT format here: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/UsabilityTesting/PhaseI Since moinmoin does not have built-in discussion pages like MediaWiki ( :( hehe) I created a separate page / scratch pad for discussion of the test plan so folks can provide feedback. You can just comment on my blog [2] or to this post and I'll make sure the feedback gets recorded on the wiki discussion page. Anyway, I'm looking forward to hearing your feedback and working more with you on this project :) ~m [1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/UserObservationData/Jessy19Jan2009 [2] http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/gnome-shell-usability-test-plan/ _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
