Hi Kevin,
welcome to the project!
On 13.04.2012 09:37, Kevin Grignon wrote:
Hello All,
I joined the AOO project a few weeks ago and wanted to take a moment to
formally introduce myself to the project.
My name is Kevin Grignon, I'm a user experience designer with 15 years of
experience in product research, interaction design and usability
evaluation. I'm a Certified User Experience Professional who is currently
working for IBM, based out of Shanghai, China.
I'm very excited to be joining this effort, and look forward to
contributing to the design direction moving forward.
My area of interest are related to product design and user experience
design. I feel that successful products are those that are designed for
people. I feel that technology should compliment, rather thank disrupt,
people's lives. I like to balance incremental enhancements to the existing
user experience, with explorations of future design direction and
innovation.
I'm looking forward to suggestions for enhancing the user experience.
I'm more on the technical side, but may help discussing if, how and for
what effort suggested changes may be doable.
Within the Apache OpenOffice community, I'm looking to work with others who
are interested in researching and understanding how people use our products
to accomplish their goals. More specifically, I'd like to determine how
might we understand how people use our tools today, what works? what
doesn't? I'd also like to understand how people will use our tools in the
future? I'd like to understand the customer journey and the document life
cycle in the age of social networks, mobile devices and cloud computing.
These are very important questions to answer and discuss; the best
feature is worthless when people do not find or not understand them (we
have examples in AOO :-))
There has been some really great UX work done in past on this project, I'd
like to build of this strong base and bring AOO to the next level.
Looking forward to suggestions and discussions in this area!
Please contact me if you are interested in working together to
re-invigoratethe UX effort on Apache OpenOffice moving forward. I'd like to
work with development to learn how I can contribute to feature design and
direction. I'd like to work with users to understand what OpenOffice means
in the context of their world.
Best regards,
Kevin
Kevin Grignon
User Experience Designer
kevingrignon...@gmail.com
Sincerely,
Armin
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ALG
