Re: Usability Workshops

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Friday, July 12, 2013 10:53:32 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> Heya folk!
> 
> One of our resident usability experts, Björn Balazs, will team up with 
yours
> truly to host a Usability Workshop on Monday at Akademy, provided we can
> find people interested in them.


We will host a usability workshop on Monday morning from 10:30-12:30. We will 
go over KScreen and are still looking for a second application to review. The 
afternoon sessions are canceled unless there suddenly is a lot of demand :D


> The plan will be more or less as follows:
> * We center the session around one or a small number of applications. This
> will be decided, as much as possible, in advance of the sessions.
> * Björn will introduce the sessions with some theory about user tests and
> usability.
> * we find a volunteer from the audience who isn't experienced with the
> application in question
> * we let a developers from the application guide the user through the app,
> asking questions (avoiding suggestive ones). Björn guides the developer
> through this.
> * afterward we discuss the results. Perhaps the developers can hack on their
> app now, in any case: everybody did learn something.
> 
> I have booked 10:30-12:30 and 14:00-16:00 on Monday room B3 for two
> sessions. With great demand we could add sessions (or have less if nobody
> cares).
> 
> From you folks, especially the developers who participate in Akademy, I'd
> like to know if you're interested in having your application be the victim.
> 
> A few things to note:
> * Ideally, at least 2 developers are present
> * Ideally, it is possible to find people unfamiliar with the application
> (very hard for Dolphin and Gwenview, for example)
> * This type of usability testing tends to show the Real Bad Stuff™, it's 
not
> terribly good at fine tuning an already quite good application.
> 
> So who's up for having his/her app checked out? Note that nobody replied on
> the akademy-attendee list so unless people sign up here, we'll cancel the
> workshop.
> 
> Cheers,
> Björn and Jos

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