I'm constantly asking friends and family to sit in-front of my Mac with Silverback [1] running, to get their impressions of new software/websites I'm working on - something I'd recommend to everyone!
I did this with my younger brother, and asked him to have a play with the Habari dashboard, and he ended up getting pretty frustrated! Here's the summary of points: - "The widgets are easy to move around, less 'fiddly' than WordPress." - "Why are there only three widgets?" - "How can I add more? Where's the big '+' like on a Mac?!" - "What does 'Latest Log Activity mean? Oh, you mean latest site activity..." - He didn't know what the 'i' did on the Latest Log Activity widget - When he clicked it, he tried to close the config screen, and clicked the 'x' thinking that was the right thing to do - Got very surprised when it disappeared, tried to look for an 'Undo' button, even looking in the Message Log, but found none - Eventually managed to add it again using the dropdown So, what do we do? Here's some ideas I had in light of the testing: - Perhaps make the 'Latest Log Activity' more understandable to non-geeks... :P - Have a pretty looking tooltip appear when the 'i' is hovered over, "Change the settings for this widget" - The 'x' should disappear on the blacked out config screen, and 'i' should then have a tooltip saying "Close settings" - On the Message Log, to the right of those messages, could we possibly have an Undo button? Although it was very basic testing, I tend to agree with the results and would love to get peoples feedback on this... -- Alex [1] http://silverbackapp.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
