Re: Usability and UI design (was: Re: UI Guidelines -- What I'm doing)

["Dutch Zempel" <dutchusa mediaone net>]

how do i get to the development documents mentioned in this message
dutch zempel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Mueth" <dan eazel com>
To: <gnome-gui-list gnome org>; <usability gnome org>
Cc: "Kenny Graunke" <kenny whitecape org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 2:14 PM
Subject: Usability and UI design (was: Re: UI Guidelines -- What I'm doing)


>
> I thought I would clarify the UI vs. usability issue, since a lot of
> people seem to be confused about it...
>
> As I'm sure everybody knows, usability includes UI design as well as many
> other components, such as user testing and user feedback
> collection.
>
> Because usability is an umbrella project and because UI design is a
> high-bandwidth topic, the mailing lists and IRC channels are set up as
> follows:
>
> Mailing lists:
>   gnome-gui-list gnome org - Discussion of UI issues
>   usability gnome org - Discussion of general usability issues
>                         (ie. everything except details of UI design)
>
> IRC:
>   #interface - Discussion of UI design
>   #usability - Discussion of general usability issues
>
> This way people working on the overall usability work, user testing,
> collecting user feedback, etc. don't drown in the high volume of UI design
> discussion.
>
> As for the web pages, they are combined, because people are not likely to
> drown in a web page;)  So, the GUP (GNOME Usability Project) has a single
> web page at:
>     http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/
>
> Calum has written some great content for the site, and Kenny and I have
> been maintaining it (along with the rest of d.g.o.).  With the help of
> everybody else on these lists, we hope to develop this into a more
> complete site with UI guidelines, more information on user testing,
> etc.  If you have suggestions for additional content, please email Kenny
> (on cc list) and myself :)
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Tue, 1 May 2001, colin z robertson wrote:
>
> > For the last two months or so I have been trying to resurrect the UI
> > Guidelines document in Gnome CVS at /gnome-libs/devel-docs/ui-guide.
> > So far I have written a section on dialogs and I'm working on a
> > section on menus. I have some fairly basic mechanisms for handling
> > i18n in the document.
> >
> > My work so far is available at
> > http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~s.robertson/software/ui-guide
> >
> > colin
> >
> >   _____________________________                            ____
> >   rtnl  http://rational.cjb.net     c z robertson ndirect co uk
> >                                                    icq 13294163
> >
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