Re: [Usability] UI Review

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 14:45, Gregory Merchan wrote:

> GEdit. As I recall, Paolo was great about participating in UI review and
> that is very good. However, at least when I was online, GEdit tweaking
> seemed to take the most time. I feel other important modules did not
> get enough time and may have been missed entirely. 

Absolutely the main failing of the first two UI reviews I think (the
second one in particular)... neither managed to review everything.  I
don't know how we can address this, other than starting earlier... maybe
we set a hard deadline of one hour maximum per application or something,
but reviewing part of every application is possibly even worse than
reviewing all of some of them :/

> Keep track of the kinds of errors corrected. (Or distill that from logs.)
> If an error is common, then the HIG may need revision.

All the bugs from the previous two ui-reviews are in bugzilla-- the 2.0
ones have "[ui-review]" in the subject, and the 2.2 ones have the
ui-review keyword.  It would indeed be great if somebody had time to
pull them all out (there are about 100 in total I think) and write up
the most common problems, as input to the HIG (or possibly more of a
checklist-style "HIG Lite").

> Specify the program version before review. Screenshots were often used
> because not everyone had an up-to-date version. Announce this in advance
> so people have time to get the correct version.

Alternatively (but not quite as good), have some designated attendee
prepare screenshots for each session in advance, so we don't all turn up
and waste the first ten minutes asking "who can do some screenshots" as
often happened last time.  (Glynn did his best but he wasn't able to
attend all the sessions).

Cheeri,
Calum.

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