On Friday, April 15, 2011 12:52:58 AM Kate Stewart wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 23:40 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:00:31 PM Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > > In this summary, I have numbered the participants: > > > - P1, 19, a student and Mac user > > > - P2, 33, an administrator and Mac user > > > - P3, 25, a student and Windows user > > > - P4, 32, a teacher and Windows user > > > - P5, 27, a compliance officer who uses both Windows and Mac > > > - P7, 44, a life coach who uses both Windows and Ubuntu > > > - P8, 30, an IT network manager and Windows user > > > - P9, 22, a student and Windows user > > > - P10, 21, a student and Windows user > > > - P11, 47, a teacher and Windows user > > > - P12, 34, an operations manager and Windows user. > > > > Would you characterize this as a reasonable (for it's sample size) > > representation of the target audience for Unity? > > I'd also ask that a couple of folks 60+ (retired, new user to computers, > as well as existing Mac and windows) be surveyed if possible. > > I'm running into a lot of folks in that demographic (think start of baby > boom retirement bubble ;) ) that tell me they like Ubuntu, and certainly > like the price, so getting that demographic's input and factoring in > their impressions could be useful.
I think that would be interesting, particularly since there seems (from my casual observation) to have been a lot of focus in Unity's design on making 'good' choices that aren't constrained by being in line with what experienced computer users would expect. One dichotomy I see between this study group and this discussion is a lack of any dedicated Ubuntu users. I know there's a lot of focus on jumping the chasm, but I would have thought it would have been useful to see how an experienced user of Ubuntu's version of Gnome managed to transition to Unity. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel