I have to disagree that the current UI is "fairly intuitive". The Admin UI to me appears to reflect the approach of designing a set of services, and then giving each service some UI space.
Has any usability testing been done to date, and if so could someone post the links to it? Regards Stephen Stephen Marquard, Acting Director Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town http://www.cet.uct.ac.za Email/IM/XMPP: [email protected] Phone: +27-21-650-5037 Cell: +27-83-500-5290 >>> Christopher Brooks <[email protected]> 3/5/2012 9:11 PM >>> Hi, I just wanted to separate one piece out of this: > > - If you have a deployed prototype, I can see about getting some > > usability testing done here, maybe Judy can as well? We could at > > least do some less formal usability testing (think aloud, etc.). > We have not prototype we would like to discuss this first, before we > would spent our time on this. I see usability testing as akin to unit testing but for the UI. That is, I don't think we should let any significant UI be released without some form of usability testing if we have people who are willing to test. Without usability testing, we run the risk of making changes that are not appropriate for our intended audience. Usability testing is perhaps the single biggest thing we can do to mitigate support requests. As is, the software is fairly intuitive. I don't want to diminish this if possible, and am willing to help out by finding some people here to run through tests (even if I don't have the ability in the short term to rework the UI, at least we can look for pitfalls). Chris -- Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan Web: http://www.cs.usask.ca/~cab938 Phone: 1.306.966.1442 Mail: Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Saskatchewan 176 Thorvaldson Building 110 Science Place Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C9 _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________ ### UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN This e-mail is subject to the UCT ICT policies and e-mail disclaimer published on our website at http://www.uct.ac.za/about/policies/emaildisclaimer/ or obtainable from +27 21 650 9111. This e-mail is intended only for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. If the e-mail has reached you in error, please notify the author. If you are not the intended recipient of the e-mail you may not use, disclose, copy, redirect or print the content. If this e-mail is not related to the business of UCT it is sent by the sender in the sender's individual capacity. ### _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
