Re: On the Interaction with the design team

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

On 06/10/2011 05:49 PM, Allan Day wrote:
> > Were there any UX testing report available that motivated this decision?
> This kind of statement implies that if designers don't scientifically
> prove the validity of their work they aren't allowed to do it at all.
> More user testing would be great, but that's often not an option.

Thanks for the response. I'm not saying what you're implying but for 
controversial changes organizing a UX testing could prove useful. I 
remember Canonical/Ubuntu organizing one and publishing the results on 
Unity a few month back with mixed results (of course some would see the 
glass half full and some half empty).

I understand those take time and resources as we tried to organize one 
for GNOME.Asia in Bangalore and finally ruled against it because we had 
a lot of other things to deal with.

Anyway it's nice to know that GNOME designers are listening even if they 
don't show it ;-)

Fred