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Usability Review

I recently wrote my first usability review for KHangMan, a hangman game in the KDE Edutainment package.

I might have been a little too thorough, the report for this simple game was 13 pages long. Oops. This is an informal document and does not follow any writing standards. You can download the PDF document from my website: http://www.obso1337.org/misc/khangman.pdf.

Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

seele :: Aug.20.2004 :: General, HCI :: 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “Usability Review”

  1. on 22 Aug 2004 at 2:40 am1Seele Varcuzzo

    I have gotten some really great positive feedback on the KDE-Usability mailing list. The maintainer of the program has read my review and is already working on implementing many of my suggestions. If long-winded, yet thorough papers are the way to get usability and development people to talk to each other, thats great because it gets the job done and the problems solved.

  2. on 24 Aug 2004 at 12:14 am2obso1337.org - Weblog

    Jakob Nielsen Comments On FOSS
    Builer AU recently published an interview with Jakob Nilesen and his position on usability in the Free and Open Source Software community.

    His perspective is the general audience of OSS is “geek” and they have more interested in features than colo…

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