Re: Usability studies

[Ryan Peters <sloshy45 sbcglobal net>]

On 05/12/2011 09:53 AM, Tim Murphy wrote:
> >>that disprove it's position
>
> I think that proving or disproving things relating to how best humans 
> interact with software is pretty hard to do really.  It's like proving 
> how people think which hasn't happened yet.
>
> New users would probably be happy with the program manager from 
> windows 3.11, for example.
What I meant was that the article makes a few false 
assumptions/assertions, including how it says that opening applications 
is slower in GNOME 3 when I noted the many ways it actually made it 
faster. Also, it says that it would be confusing to new users, when I 
showed that my family (which is the type of family that doesn't 
understand the difference between uploading and downloading), comprised 
of five people besides myself, is perfectly capable of using GNOME 3 
without extended training or effort. Compared to Windows, there's very 
little to explain, unless you want to go into detail about keyboard 
shortcuts.

As I said, though, your mileage may vary with regards to how people 
react to GNOME 3. As far as I can tell, the people who dislike it are 
*not* new users, but rather users who are used to customizing their 
desktop exactly the way they like it. Most people regard computers as 
appliances (like iPods), and don't want to have to tweak with them to 
get what they want. If it doesn't get in their way and doesn't ask them 
too many questions, they're happy. I believe that GNOME 3, in reducing 
distractions while still improving functionality, is a step in the right 
direction.
> Regards,
>
> Tim
>
> On 12 May 2011 15:35, Ryan Peters <sloshy45 sbcglobal net 
> <mailto:sloshy45 sbcglobal net>> wrote:
>
>     On 05/12/2011 09:28 AM, Ryan Peters wrote:
>
>         On 05/12/2011 09:19 AM, Ryan Peters wrote:
>
>             Also, I read a post on Planet GNOME a while ago that said
>             how GNOME 2 solved some problems that the GNOME 2
>             applications menu had on low-precision input devices,
>             which can be read here:
>
>         Ah! Forgive me for not including the link, my mistake! I
>         cannot find it and wanted to insert it after I found it, but
>         my Firefox history isn't helping. Could somebody find the
>         article for me who regularly reads Planet GNOME?
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>     Nevermind, I found it:
>     https://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/on-pointer-control/
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