[Usability] Re: ui-review of new modules

["David Adam Bordoley" <bordoley msu edu>]

Calum Benson writes: 

> On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 15:04, David Adam Bordoley wrote: 
>
> > [1] I'm really starting to question the usefulness of ui-reviews. They tend 
> > to only address skin deep layout problems and do nothing to address 
> > interaction problems which are the biggest usability bugs in gnome right now 
> > anyway. 
>
> This is one of the points I was trying to make during my usability talk
> at GUADEC, but no, I didn't have any brilliant ideas as to how to
> improve either of those situations :)  (I don't think any other large
> open source project does either, though, so we still have plenty
> opportunity to innovate...) 

I guess the biggest problem is that we don't have a clear idea of what the 
final product should "sort of" look like and behave like. Right now we have 
this wierd mix of applications and documents and the models for interaction 
are not clear. I guess i should comment on that thread :) 

dave