On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 5:43 PM David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Trevor Bača <trevorb...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Particularly if you teach LilyPond in a classroom environment:
> >
> > Has anyone on the user list ever usability-tested LilyPond's docs? For
> > example, at the end of a semester course that you've taught, asking a
> > handful of your students to perform a small task with LilyPond that they
> > might not yet know how to do, and to verbalize their thought process as
> > they click through the documentation and try things out? ("Here's a small
> > snippet with three hairpins. Can you make the ends of the second hairpin
> > stick out just two staff spaces wider?") Usually this is done on camera
> > (Zoom is great for this), with the number of clicks / amount of retries /
> > amount of time necessary to complete the task recorded.
> >
> > Has anyone on this list done this?
>
> This is pointless as long as the intersection of the people complaining
> about the documentation and the people writing documentation is empty.
>
> The path to improving LilyPond does not lie with telling the few
> remaining volunteers that they are doing a bad job.
>
Hi,
I ask again: has anyone on this list usability-tested LilyPond's
documentation?
I'm preparing to do the work of usability-testing the docs myself.
I would like to know if anyone has done this before, so that I could
potentially piggy-back off your work.
--
Trevor Bača
www.trevorbaca.com
soundcloud.com/trevorbaca
