On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 14:15 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 10:35 +0000, Charline wrote: > > > I would appreciate it if everybody who is planning on attending the > > > GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest could speak up and share their ideas of > > what > > > we should focus on while together, and what things each person plans > > to > > > bring to the event or work on.
I recently added empathy to my list of things to take a look at during this hackfest. I also have some notes and ideas I want to introduce wrt overall user experience in the shell. I wanted to take a look at combobox (and possibly other) menus in GTK+ which cause horrible problems at screen edges, and also look at inconsistencies between combo entries and comboboxes which appear to have no logical (code or usability) reason to look different when expanded. Nautilus is also something we should take a look at, there have been a few general improvement posts to planet gnome and we should start considering them seriously. Personally I liked Garrett's mockups and he mentioned to me he was also looking to add more to them. There are some other issues I'd like to discuss more generally, one of which is the GNOME first impressions, a short introductory video of GNOME for first time users could be added, a request to fill out the "About Me" dialog on first login and a link-tastic set of bookmarks to get the user started. Things like that to make the first impression of GNOME a "consumer" experience rather than an engineering one... "Here you go, now get on with it" isn't really a user-friendly approach to a desktop environment which will be mostly unfamiliar to new users. We could also make a start at how a pattern library for user interaction and experience could be implemented on GNOME's infrastructure and generate some initial mockups. Something which is in the same vein as "python snippets" jono's been banging on about would be a good idea from a UI/UX perspective. ... that's all I can say is in my head right now BR, K _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
