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There was a recent discussion on how to create an Open Source Usability
Lab - makes for interesting reading. Here's
part 2 (part 1 is linked inside it). I've also been watching Pongo as an interesting means of capturing users during usability testing. Here's a brief tutorial. It uses istanbul instead of recordmydesktop. I just recently discovered Xnee, and wonder if it could be leveraged to work with Pongo to capture and record user actions. Here's a discussion about how to create a usability lab using Mandriva. I'm hoping to put together some basic usability sessions for Gnome-Shell, so if anyone has any other tools or ideas I'd love to hear them. Kirk Allan Caeg wrote: Hi Usability Listers, This could be offtopic, but I think, UXers here would love to discuss this. I'm looking for Open Source UX tools. As for Mockups, Balsamiq is kind enough to give me a license as an open source enthusiast. I know that this has been discussed here before, but any new input is more than welcome. For usability testing, gtk-recordmydesktop seems to be a useful tool. I had a chance to see how a recorded session on Morae ( http://www.techsmith.com/morae.asp ) looks like, but it's not extensive enough for me to know all its features. In the recorded session, I noticed that the mouse pointer is given focus by graying out a bit the rest of the screen, video of the user is recorded, and everything is consolidated in one file. I think, it's pretty easy to improvise ways to record those through some hacks, but having a more decent solution will give you and me, the UXers, better user experiences. What other open source UX tools can you recommend to help develop GNOME and other projects? :) _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability |