Re: [Usability]Re: Short article on OSS usability

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:26:24PM -0800, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > Or is the author saying that *other* beneficial types of usability 
> > discussion are conspcuously absent from our mailing lists?  If so, what 
> > kind of discussion would be more useful?
> 
> A design process. 
> 
> Start with user goals, add context, extrapolate to tasks, perform a task
> analysis, prioritize tasks (frequency, importance, urgency, etc),
> prototype an interface around these tasks, test interface (flip-chart,
> mockup, simple prototype implementation, etc), refine interface,
> implement, usability test, refine interface, implement 1.x, rinse
> repeat.

Seth, should get people to read "designing from both sides of the
screen" or equivalent book to understand what you mean by the design
process.

Havoc