Re: [Usability] cheese usability review

[Valent Turkovic <valent turkovic gmail com>]

daniel g. siegel wrote:
> dear all,
>
> while the ui of cheese gets described as quite good by some and as
> pretty bad by others, i would like to discuss the ui and usability of
> cheese and even enhance it to be full HIG compatible. i am not a
> usability expert and the ui of cheese was done step by step without even
> thinking about people with handicaps or other usability features.
> therefore it would be very nice if some of you could post their opinion
> about cheese and what we could do better. 
>
> thanks a lot!
>
> daniel

I find your app great and I can hardly see what you need to improve. I 
only see one small usability issue in effects - when you click on a 
effect that effect just gets a blue overlay. That immediately looked too 
subtle but I shrugged it of as "it's maybe only me". When I introduced 
cheese to a new linux user and that user didn't register when some 
effects were active and which ones (sometimes multiple). I had to 
explain to that user "you see there icons are blue and that means they 
are active".

Also now that I look at it "Back" button should be maybe bigger? I also 
found that users after applying effect had to look more than they should 
have in order to find how to get back to taking snapshots or video clips.

Thanks for a great app!

Valent.