KDE User Research Profiles: The PURP
Being true to my promise last week, here is this week’s project pick for beginning their user research profiles:
Plasma already has a head start, last week Aaron copied the template over to the Plasma section on techbase: Plasma User Research Profile (PURP). This will be a great activity to work on at the upcoming Plasma meeting in Milan. If you have any questions, feel free to ping me.
seele :: Mar.24.2008 :: Design, General, KDE/Kubuntu :: 6 Comments »
Don’t you mean Plasma User Research Profile?
Second copy & paste:
http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Okular/User_Research_Profile
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@eli: Right you are. Fixed.
@pinotree: Yay! (good thinking, because Okular was going to be next week ;)
FYI. Hello, Plasma. Mercurial called. They want their logo back. :-)
@AurGlass: Hello, Mercurial. Plasma called. They want their logo back. :) What I mean to say is that the Plasma logo is older, it has been on http://plasma.kde.org/ for a long time. Whereas the Mercurial logo was only just introduced with version 1.0 as far as I know.
@AurGlass, Robin: Right on topic! I clearly see how I can improve usability with your using info in your posts. Thanks a lot… err… NOT! Please stay on topic.
@Celeste:
As a fresh newbie developer with an unclear idea about my application, how do I start doing user research on it? I don’t have an easy step by step guide up my sleeve. Could you please help pointing a usability guide for newbie developers?
Reasons why is this important:
* new developers come all the time, teaching usability only to `old hands` is an infinite process - you always have new ones to teach;
* newbies have few (bad) habits about developing free software, and would certainly help learning the right ones from the start.
Thanks a lot!