Usability testing

[Walter Bender]

And in point of fact, the new designs are in large part informed by
observations made in the field over the past two years.

There are many details, such as the color selector, that we have all
agreed are far from the mark--many of these are documented in Trac,
but perhaps a collector bug would be a useful addition.

And there are certain features where we are far from reaching
consensus, most notably the behavior of the Frame
appearance/disappearance. I would love to see a "usability" study of
this feature within the context of the new design.

-walter

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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>  Carol Lerche wrote:
>  | A good example is the rococco color picking widget.  According to my
>  | observation this is very difficult for small children to use, and to learn.
>
>  Perhaps you would care to look at
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Designs/Toolbars#11
>
>  A glance through the Designs section of the wiki will answer your question
>  about why there isn't a bigger push for usability testing: because Sugar
>  isn't anywhere close to implementing its design.  Personally, I expect
>  that usability testing will serve almost exclusively to tell us what we
>  already know is wrong with the current implementation.  Once the new
>  designs are implemented, then it will be a good time to test usability to
>  search for further improvements.
>
>  - --Ben
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