#7331 HIGH 8.2.0 (: user study to determine merits of "freeform" homepage layout

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#7331: user study to determine merits of "freeform" homepage layout
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 Reporter:  walter                           |       Owner:  walter              
     Type:  task                             |      Status:  new                 
 Priority:  high                             |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
Component:  sugar                            |     Version:  olpc-3              
 Keywords:  home page, freeform, user study  |    Verified:  0                   
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 There is some question as to whether the freeform (random) layout for the
 home page designed for Update 2 is going to work well in the field. It is
 not clear, for example, that it will be easy for a teacher to describe how
 to launch an activity in a group setting, or that the support gang will be
 able to readily describe to a user where to find an activity, etc.

 A simple user study could tell us a lot. It could look at how long it
 takes to find and launch a succession of activities and how many words are
 needed to describe the location of an activity on the screen.

 (Not that this is somewhat orthogonal to whether or not one allows users
 to customize the position of icons on the home screen.)

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