Re: [Usability] Usability Digest, Vol 60, Issue 7

2009-04-17 Thread Anton Kerezov
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Jacob Beauregard wrote: > That is one of the most impressive mockups I have ever seen. Thank you! > The other concern would be Ctrl+key shortcut visibility. I know the GIMP > places Ctrl+key shortcuts in tooltips. However, I question the overall > usability of

[Usability] Usability at Gran Canaria?

2009-04-17 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, I'm just wondering if there are going to be any usability focussed sessions at GUADEC this year? I'm going to be there. It would be great to get together with some of the folks on this list at some point during the conference. Allan ___ Usabili

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread dino
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 13:38 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > > For the fist survey you may vote here: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7088189#post7088189 I think its a good idea in general, but I think its a better approach to write a "complete" survey with several questions and ask them

[Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Anton Kerezov
I'm starting to make sociological research over UbuntuForums in order to get more data what is the userbase and what it requires as I have mentioned in this document: http://www.scribd.com/doc/14221984/Shell-Brainstorm For the fist survey you may vote here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Anton Kerezov
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM, dino wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 13:38 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > > > > For the fist survey you may vote here: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7088189#post7088189 > > I think its a good idea in general, but I think its a better approach to > wri

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Celeste Lyn Paul
My .02... On Friday 17 April 2009 09:38:41 am Anton Kerezov wrote: > Well I haven't thought of them all just yet but here's a sample list: > > - How old are you? (determines the majority of users Gnome is used by) Also should ask education, country, primary language, OS language, if they have

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Guillaume Ardaud
I whole-heartedly agree with Celeste. As mentionned before, you should definitely have a full survey and not proceed questions by question; the resulting stats will have very little value in the second case. For example, consider the two questions "How old are you" and "Do you feel you can work fa

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Anton Kerezov
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > Also should ask education, country, primary language, OS language, if they > have a laptop/computer/both, etc. so you can get a profile of the type of > user > they might be. > Finding about this would be helpful but right now I'm trying

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Florian Ludwig
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 18:33 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > > I get it. But where I can build that survey? I don't know a web site > or smth I can use to achieve this goal. You all tell me to make all > the questions and put them together but nobody tells me how to do it > so I have no other choise

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Vadim Peretokin
I'd second the survey via Google Docs idea. It works out nice. ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Friday 17 April 2009 11:33:02 am Anton Kerezov wrote: > I get it. But where I can build that survey? I don't know a web site or smth > I can use to achieve this goal. You all tell me to make all the questions > and put them together but nobody tells me how to do it so I have no other > choise b

Re: [Usability] Improve nautilus' saved searches

2009-04-17 Thread anthony
HI, Here, if i good understand, the result of the search is view like a folder in the location bar, i like it, but i don't think it have to be saved after having relaunched nautilus and that the save button is necessary. Saving a search appear a little weird to me, so let me explain to you

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Anton Kerezov
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > surveygizmo.com allows up to 250 respondents for free. And only people > that > finish the entire survey count toward the 250, so you don't lose out on > those > that quit halfway through. > Thank you all. I'll prepare a beta of the

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Florian Ludwig
In general I think the majority of questions should be multiple choice questions or "insert number" and not free-text. Its much easier to evaluate later on and you get some numbers. But provide some way to comment at the end of the survey, its frustrating if you have to choose an answer that does

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Anton Kerezov
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Florian Ludwig wrote: Here's the first draft: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cFE1dHJkUkhFakVoNlZJVEFKNXRJZFE6MA .. I would welcome any further question proposals as well as a way to handle the Contry/language questions. I can't possibly type all

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Celeste Lyn Paul
On Friday 17 April 2009 02:51:07 pm Florian Ludwig wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 10:22 -0400, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > > Also should ask education, country, primary language, OS language, if > > they have a laptop/computer/both, etc. so you can get a profile of the > > type of user they might be.

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Florian Ludwig
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 23:11 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > Here's the first draft: > http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cFE1dHJkUkhFakVoNlZJVEFKNXRJZFE6MA.. > What is your job status? Does the term "employed" include "self-employed"? (I dont know) But anyway... does it matter if the u

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Celeste Lyn Paul
What is the purpose/goal of this survey? To get general information about GNOME users or to find something specific out? If it is to get general information, there are a few things you should know. * Your audience is going to be inherently biased to people who know about the community and par

[Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys -English education status

2009-04-17 Thread Tim McConnell
> > I can't possibly type all them, right? Also would need help with the > > education level because I'm not very familiar with the English > terms. In the US the education levels are usually considered in this manner: Non-High school graduate (didn't finish public school) High school Graduate (

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Friday 17 April 2009 5:05:46 pm Florian Ludwig wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 23:11 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > > How often do you check your emails? * Relative Number of times per day > > > How many emails do you write per day? > > Maybe make the all "per week" instead of "per day" since th

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Friday 17 April 2009 5:05:46 pm Florian Ludwig wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 23:11 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > > How do you switch between the windows? > There is some function builtin metacity, where you hover the window with > the mouse and it becomes active, maybe add this option - i dont

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys -English education status

2009-04-17 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Friday 17 April 2009 9:06:59 pm Tim McConnell wrote: > > > > I can't possibly type all them, right? Also would need help with the > > > education level because I'm not very familiar with the English > > terms. > In the US the education levels are usually considered in this manner: > Non-High s