Re: Any proposal for a small HCI-related university project?

["Luca Vezzaro" <elvezzaro gmail com>]

Thanks for the fast replies.

> The gnumeric project has been looking for a user interface for
> 'conditional formatting' for a while now.  The underlying concept is
> the same as MS Excel, or OpenOffice.org.  However, the interface
> both use is terrible.
>
> If you have some interest in designing a better approach we'd be
> delighted to discuss it with you.
>
> Good Luck
>   Jody

Seems interesting, but at a first thought I don't think this interface
will result in much more than a single dialog...
And I fear that will not be enough.
Maybe making the whole conditional formatting concept a bit more
complex than the one used in OpenOffice.org might translate in a more
sophisticated user interface. What do you think? Am I missing
something?

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Dave Neary <bolsh gnome org> wrote:
>
>  Hi Luca,
>
>  What is te goal of your project? What lessons are you supposed to learn
>  from your course? HCI is such a general subject that it's hard to say
>  how the goals of your project might be aligned with the project.

The course is basically focused on user interface design, that is, to
design efficient and user-friendly interfaces.

>  Perhaps in two weeks, you could do a usability review of an application
>  and create a number of patches to address your top 5 complaints?

Yes, it might do since we've already been doing usability reviews as
an exercise.
Though it could be very hard to find an application which suits my needs...

Luca Vezzaro