Re: [Ayatana] Usability Resources

2010-11-19 Thread Christian Giordano
There are books which talk about theory (ie. standard design patters or Cognitive Psychology), but because the user approach to software is continuously evolving, and there are always new problems to solve, common sense, sensibility (noticing the current solutions which work well) and a very good

Re: [Ayatana] Usability Resources

2010-11-19 Thread Felipe Erias Morandeira
On 19/11/10 02:46, Spike Burch wrote: Anyone have book or website recommendations for learning more about usability? Off the back of my mind, I could recommend you a few books that I have lying around. These are three classic ones: - The design of everyday things - D. Norman - The humane

Re: [Ayatana] Contributions?

2010-11-19 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:49, Carsten Agger ag...@c.dk wrote: What about complex test scenarios ... i.e., not for usability test the way it's described in RubinCisnell, but more for testing purposes? E.g., import photos from camera, edit in the GIMP, ... sounds exciting! you're saying you

Re: [Ayatana] Contributions?

2010-11-19 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
sorry.. forgot to add: there was an initiative before lucid i guess.. to give ubuntu a simple photo manager, i.e. the Simple equivalent to Simple Scan.. * anybody have a link to the blueprint? and now there's this:

Re: [Ayatana] Usability Resources

2010-11-19 Thread Spike Burch
Thank you everyone who replied! This is enough information to feed my appetite for quite a while. :) ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help :