Re: [Gimp-developer] Status OpenUsability student project
Sven wrote: just a quick note to inform you that the usability weekend was a great success. Thanks. Inspired by the weekend I thought it was about time I joined this list. Sometimes (but not always) I will chip in to inject some interaction concept into the discussion here. I have blogged about the weekend from my point of view. teaser: Along the way some hard choices had to be made by the team about what workflow to support, and what to leave to other applications. Moreover, essential functionality has been identified during the weekend and implementation of some of it started right there and then. read more: http://www.mmiworks.net/eng/publications/2006/11/creating-user- scenarios-with-gimpteam.html --ps principal user interaction architect man + machine interface works http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interaction architecture ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Status OpenUsability student project
Moin, just a quick note to inform you that the usability weekend was a great success. Based on workspace observations and interviews that Kamila, Ellen and Peter did over the last weeks, and supplemented by feedback from the GIMP documentation team and GIMP user support, we managed to come up with a list of usage scenarios that we consider typical for our target user base. The usability team will now continue their work based on these scenarios. The next step is an expert evaluation of the current user interface. We hope that the project will be finished somewhen early next year. That should be just in time to discuss the outcome of this project and hopefully to start with implementing the proposals that will be made. We have spent less than EUR 1100,- on this, which is only possible because the Linuxhotel in Essen (http://www.linuxhotel.de/) offered us a very generous community price. At some point later in this project, I would like to get more developers involved. We should probably have a dedicated meeting for this early next year. Sven ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] Status OpenUsability student project
Hi, I would like to let you give you some update on the OpenUsability sponsored student project that we announced in August. Here's the announcement again in case you lost the URL: http://www.gimp.org/announcements/open-usability-gimp.html During the application period that lasted until the 10th of September we have received a number of applications from all over the world. Fourteen people applied for the position, coming from Europe, USA, Russia and India. Peter has lead the selection process and describes this effort in his blog: http://www.mmiworks.net/eng/publications/2006/09/selecting-associate-for-gimp.html In the end, Kamila Giedrojć was chosen and she has since then worked with Peter on the project. The next step is to create a number of representative usage scenarios. For this purpose we have arranged a small meeting (9 persons) next weekend in Essen, Germany. There, Kamila and Peter will get the chance to talk to people involved in GIMP user support and meet authors of the GIMP user manual as well as GIMP developers. We will compensate for the room and travel costs from the money that GIMP has collected from donations. Will try to keep you uptodate on the proceedings, but don't expect much before the weekend. Still no connectivity in my new appartment... BTW, since Dave has retired from his job as the GIMP treasurer, we should seek for someone to fill in this position. Currently I am doing this job, but I would prefer if someone else could take over. The job involves thanking people who donate money, updating our sponsors page from time to time and of course keeping contact to the GNOME foundation who is holding the GIMP money for us. Sven ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
