Re: [libreoffice-design] User Research

Bjorn

On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 15:43 +0200, Björn Balazs wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> and sorry for long time no hear... Real life tends to be demanding, but 
> hopefully things will get better now.
>
> We at Apliki, namely Isabel (she will soon say hello) and I, are planning a 
> set of surveys to better understand who the LibO user are. For these surveys 
> we do need LibO end-users that are willing to answer a few questions about 
> themselves and their likes and dislikes. 
>
> With these surveys we want to find criteria to guide the direction of the 
> further development of LibO, to understand how LibO can and needs to be 
> improved. 
>
> A first survey has been prepared and more will follow, giving you all the 
> possibilities to add questions you find relevant. So we qbviously will need a 
> lot of feedback from all of you on this issue, but at the moment we would 
> like to start the discussion with the most fundamental issue:
>
> How can we acquire the end-users for the surveys? 
>
> We have been thinking about recruiting them over Facebook or via the Download 
> Page for Libre Office! Do you have any other ideas? Do you see any 
> possibility to actively help us with this?
>
> Thanks for your help and your opinion!
>
> Best,
> Björn
>
> -- 
> Voluntary Open Source Usability: http://www.OpenUsability.org
> Commercial Open Source Usability: http://www.OpenSource-Usability-Labs.com

To add to your end user surveys, could Twitter help? Sending a link in a
tweet about a user survey. Using the users group may get the group has
problems not the ones who have none and skew the data. Not that we
should ignore the user issues for ideas and suggestions.

-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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