Re: [Usability] A New Start Menu Design, which resemble windows

2008-10-29 Thread Daniele Levorato
> I am users from windows, that is no shame. Jobs learned his ideas of > GUI from Xerox. But windows succeeded later. There must have > something that could be learned in Windows. Really, I don't want to flame anybody... I've used Windows for many years... but really the only valuable thing t

[Usability] How to test

2008-10-29 Thread Matthew Nuzum
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If somebody could write a *nix version of something like Silverback[4], that > would be a great tool to have in our armoury, too. (Slight mixed metaphor > there...) > [4] I didn't write a progra

[Usability] measuring and improving user productivity

2008-10-29 Thread Matthew Nuzum
Hello, I've had on my mind for a while the topic of user productivity which could be thought of as a subject that falls under usability. Several times I've composed emails on the subject and with each I tend to be too detailed or they turn into a rant (or both) and I don't send it. So I'm writing

Re: [Usability] measuring and improving user productivity

2008-10-29 Thread Vadim Peretokin
I run into the small issues too from time to time. Maybe have a team of people that find these things, discuss the best solution, then go to upstream and file bug with proposed solution? ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.or