On 6 Jul 2010, at 14:59, Mark Curtis wrote: > > Expanding on this. > > If someone posting in here automatically means the aren't a representative > user, and IRC would mean they're even more interested in technology and > therefore also aren't a representative user,then how do representative users > give their input?
Generally, you have to reach out directly to them to get it, engaging them in usability studies, focus groups or whatever. Cheeri, Calum. >> Subject: Re: This list, suggestions, frustration >> From: [email protected] >> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 14:01:15 +0100 >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> On 5 Jul 2010, at 21:43, Owen Taylor wrote: >> >>> * You aren't a representative user. (How do I know >>> this? Because you are reading a mailing list on gnome.org; which >>> puts your interest in technology and motivation well beyond most >>> users.) Our goal is that GNOME 3.0 is better than GNOME 2.0 >>> for *all* users, including you, but you need to be aware that >>> changes have to take into account that larger set of users. >> >> This is very true... and I suspect a related cause of this particular >> frustration is probably that those target users don't seem to be clearly >> defined anywhere. Neither do any task analyses or usability studies or other >> feedback from some of those representative users, which the design team has >> hopefully been gathering to define or validate prototypes as they're going >> along, seem to be readily available to peruse. >> >> Lack of that sort of information often leads people to assume (however >> incorrectly) that designers are just making "best guesses", rather than >> informed decisions. Which in turn leads the onlookers at large to believe >> that their opinions have just as much chance of influencing the ongoing >> design as anybody else's, resulting in everyone just diving in saying how >> *they'd* like it to work :) And the inevitable lack of detailed responses >> from busy developers does indeed result in some of that "pent-up >> frustration" that Owen refers to. >> >> Cheeri, >> Calum. >> >> -- >> CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. >> mailto:[email protected] Solaris Desktop Team >> http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 >> >> Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. >> _______________________________________________ >> gnome-shell-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your > inbox. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2_______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:[email protected] Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
