Re: [Usability] FOSA ideas

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 14:31, Eli M. Dow wrote:

> They are based on an existing file selector (Ximian uses it currently I
> believe) that was found quite usable by myself and others. The mock-ups
> are missing the accelerator underscores because this was done quickly in
> gimp. 

This isn't a criticism of anyone's mockups (I haven't had a moment to
look at any of them yet, but I will shortly), but it would be great if
somebody could take a step back and just list the user tasks we think
we're trying to support here, before we comment too deeply on any
mockups and get taken in by how good/bad/indifferent they look.  If we
could agree on those and some rough task categorisation (e.g.
frequently-done by many users, frequently by few, occasionally by many,
and occasionally by few), we'd be in great shape for assessing which
designs best met the user requirements :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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