On 05/27/2017 10:01 AM, Daniel Schürmann wrote:
If we want to desig n for radio DJs, we should do usability tests
with radio DJs. Watching real people interact with the design is
much more useful than asking people on the Internet for feedback.
Usability tests are quite easy to do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTW1yYUqBm8
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTW1yYUqBm8>
I fully agree. I hope Stéphane, finds time during his GSoC to do some
usability tests with his colleagues (real radio DJs).
That would be great.
What's a Card Wall Player?
Maybe one else in this list can explain it. AFAIK, it is a button grid
with buttons to start samples. The buttons have different colours and
blink schemas to indicate the state and type. In a GUI these infos can
be plain text as well.
It's not clear to me how the new sampler GUIs in Tango and Deere
wouldn't satisfy this. Maybe there could be some small modifications to
those designs to accommodate radio DJs more, but we need to hear from
radio DJs about that.
If there are improvements that would help radio users, I'd rather
modify Tango and Deere than fork them or make a new skin.
I welcome a Card Wall Player in Tango and Deere. But this does not
replace a dedicated radio skin which is instantly usable by default.
I don't think "instantly usable by default" is necessary, as long as it
is easy and obvious how to configure the skin settings for a radio DJ
use case.
A good skin maintainer for a radio skin, is most likely not a good
maintainer for a DJ skin. But a good skin with a consistent
design is
maintained the best by a single developer/design artist.
I disagree. A good skin is best designed by a team collaborating and
reviewing each others' work.
This is true for usability, but not for design. From my experience a
good design is usually a monolith. The team can select between Design A
and B, but a mix between both looks usually odd.
I have also the odd experience, that a good design sells better than a
good usability.
Usability is design and design is usability :)
Finally we need here a conclusion what should happen with Shade and Late
night. I a willing to put some love to Shade, since I actually use it
successfully on my Netbook.
I suggest trying Tango and the updated Deere skins on your netbook
before deciding to put in the work to update Shade. If there are some
modifications we can make to those skins to work better for netbooks,
that would be a lot less work than updating Shade.
How about to save the yellowish into Deere?
This way we can argue, that we have merged Deere and LateNight?
Definitely not. The reason I started working on Deere was because I like
its color scheme.
By the way: in terms of beauty, I am still sad about dropping 1.1 Deere.
This was quite polished am unique.
It would be nice if we kept an archive of screenshots of each skin in
each version of Mixxx for easy reference. A wiki page would be a good
place for that.
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