> http://www.openusability.org/ I know KDE has Usability experts on > their team (Ellen Reitmayr and others). There was an Ubuntu project > listed here awhile back but I didn't see it recently.
Thanks for the great link, Belinda! Regardless of how it fits into the Ubuntu project, I'm glad to know of its existence :-D > A Usability Team might be a good idea but it would need to integrate > with the Art/Marketing/Bug Squad/other Teams to make it an integrated > part of the project. For now perhaps getting one or two key/specific > areas identified as an Open Usability project might be a good start? > Just a thought. I don't really Usability as a Marketing Team task > but as part of the overall Development process. I know that in my personal experiences in "marketing" to friends and family (and strangers, yes) that usability has come up in conversation multiple times. That said, I certainly agree that Usability (with a capital U) is probably not a task for the Marketing Team. What I _do_ think, however, is that gathering knee-jerk reactions from the general public will be of great use to our Marketing efforts (with a capital M.) By this I mean something on the order of a quick survey at the end of a web-based tour, or perhaps a post-LiveCD questionnaire. I'm most interested in what people think when they happen upon Ubuntu for the first time - especially if it's their first time with GNU/LInux. So, I suppose I'm personally leaning toward integrating the usability topic into a more general feedback channel to aid the Marketing Team. Am I the only one? :-D -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
