Hi,
I've done the first usability test yesterday, here is a sum up
of the result :
1) my guinea pig's profile
2) general remarks
3) conclusions
1) She is a basic^wadvanced windows user, using w2k french
edition. By advanced I mean she is used to install programs on
her own, clicking on next, next, done ; She has no previous
freenet experience at all.
Despite that she is using a french version of windows, she is
fluent in english.
2) I told her : "I'm currently working on a p2p project called
freenet, and I'm looking for user feedbacks ; your help would be
much appreciated"
First reaction: "freenet ? never heard about that one..." mwkay
:/
Then she started googleing about freenet ; managed to get on the
website and to start the installation process...
FYI, googleing for "freenet" on the french version of google
returns the main website as the third result. The first one
beeing wikipedia.
Then she has asked me about the goals of the project : what if
it's used by terrorists, ... As my only answer was "do as if I
wans't here", she found the philosophy page (hopefully she
understands english, noone of the well advertized french
websites have translated it...)
Ok, now the installer itself:
The JRE got installed through a NSIS like installer she
was used to.
She managed to install freenet smothly, said that some
parts of the installer are still in english even though
she had selected french...
She complained about the lack of feedback during the
"post-install" phase (I've already fixed that one this
morning see #635)
Now fproxy and the node itself:
She managed to give a name to its node, started firefox
when she saw that fproxy was whining about IE ... all
was fine. She managed to get some references (I gave her
mine when she asked for it) but said that irc isn't
really intuitive for reference-exchanging (known issue
^-^).
Our welcome page (post-installation) looks horrible,
we should do something about it ; maybe link to a
CGI-IRC gateway.
She has been scared by the colors of the BACKED-OFF
nodes and asked what backed-off means. NOTE TO CSS
maintainers : we shouldn't use any RED color unless
necessary ... Red for backed off peers is kinda stupid
as the user can't do much about it and get confused for
nothing.
Appart from that, nothing special, freenet is "damned slow".
3) What can we do to improve the user experience ?
To be done :
* We need to update the article about freenet on
wikipedia
* We might need to encorage translators to translate the
philosophy page of the project.
* polish l10n on the installer
* the welcome page needs some work
* Remove RED colors on CSSes unless necessary
As I said, l10n hasn't been a blocker for her as she knows
English, It might be one for many people ... I don't think we
need it now (as it will be a pain to maintain) but we will need
it.
NextGen$
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