Il giorno mar, 13/02/2007 alle 20.30 +0100, Kristof Keppens ha scritto: Hi Kristof,
It's great that you are interested in contributing, and I'd like to welcome you to the community. Your English is totally fine; please don't apologize for it. :) There are a few techniques that usability professionals use which would be good for you to learn about. (Actually there are many techniques, but heuristic evaluation and usability testing are arguably the two most important.) I'm sending you a list of papers to read; they are a good sampling of basic information about usability. As for some reading: http://www.asktog.com/columns/027InterfacesThatKill.html http://www.asktog.com/columns/042ButterflyBallot.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000036.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000035.html http://www.useit.com/papers/guerrilla_hci.html http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/ http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_evaluation.html http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/usability_problems.html http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/inspection_summary.html http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html The gnome project uses Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) to guide user interface development. It would be good for you to acquaint yourself with the HIG: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/ . Kristof, why don't you read some of the information above, and then return to the list with your questions and comments? I'd enjoy engaging in a dialog about how to get started with usability work. (er, shoot, I have should have introduced myself properly earlier: my name is Anna, and for the past seven years I've worked for Helix Code->Ximian->Novell as a usability expert. My current title is "Manager of Product Design"; I run http://betterdesktop.org , which is a place where I store usability testing videos as I make them. Speaking of both you getting started helping out and of betterdesktop: I would dearly LOVE help from the community with watching tests and summarizing reports of the tests. cheers, Anna _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
