Excellent work! If anyone else is in a position to do this kind of test, please do, whether with the Installer, or with any other aspect of Freenet, or Thaw. Remember, the key is to offer no help unless they get *really* stuck (the goal is to accurately simulate a user that finds our website), and take notes of anything that confuses them or is counter-intuitive.
Florent - can you file bugs for each of these issues? You may want to add a [usability] tag to the summary. Ian. On 9 Aug 2006, at 06:18, Florent Daigni?re (NextGen$) wrote: > Hi, > > I've done the first usability test yesterday, here is a sum up > of the result : > > 1) my guinea pig's profile > 2) general remarks > 3) conclusions > > > 1) She is a basic^wadvanced windows user, using w2k french > edition. By advanced I mean she is used to install programs on > her own, clicking on next, next, done ; She has no previous > freenet experience at all. > > Despite that she is using a french version of windows, she is > fluent in english. > > 2) I told her : "I'm currently working on a p2p project called > freenet, and I'm looking for user feedbacks ; your help would be > much appreciated" > > First reaction: "freenet ? never heard about that one..." mwkay > :/ > > Then she started googleing about freenet ; managed to get on the > website and to start the installation process... > FYI, googleing for "freenet" on the french version of google > returns the main website as the third result. The first one > beeing wikipedia. > > Then she has asked me about the goals of the project : what if > it's used by terrorists, ... As my only answer was "do as if I > wans't here", she found the philosophy page (hopefully she > understands english, noone of the well advertized french > websites have translated it...) > > Ok, now the installer itself: > The JRE got installed through a NSIS like installer she > was used to. > She managed to install freenet smothly, said that some > parts of the installer are still in english even though > she had selected french... > She complained about the lack of feedback during the > "post-install" phase (I've already fixed that one this > morning see #635) > > Now fproxy and the node itself: > She managed to give a name to its node, started firefox > when she saw that fproxy was whining about IE ... all > was fine. She managed to get some references (I gave her > mine when she asked for it) but said that irc isn't > really intuitive for reference-exchanging (known issue > ^-^). > > Our welcome page (post-installation) looks horrible, > we should do something about it ; maybe link to a > CGI-IRC gateway. > > She has been scared by the colors of the BACKED-OFF > nodes and asked what backed-off means. NOTE TO CSS > maintainers : we shouldn't use any RED color unless > necessary ... Red for backed off peers is kinda stupid > as the user can't do much about it and get confused for > nothing. > > Appart from that, nothing special, freenet is "damned slow". > > 3) What can we do to improve the user experience ? > > To be done : > * We need to update the article about freenet on > wikipedia > * We might need to encorage translators to translate the > philosophy page of the project. > * polish l10n on the installer > * the welcome page needs some work > * Remove RED colors on CSSes unless necessary > > As I said, l10n hasn't been a blocker for her as she knows > English, It might be one for many people ... I don't think we > need it now (as it will be a pain to maintain) but we will need > it. > > NextGen$ > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060809/df1fc423/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060809/df1fc423/attachment.pgp>
