Re: [libreoffice-design] Some Feedback on Citrus.

I don't want to rain on your parade but (as a UX practitioner of 20 yrs), 
surveys are almost the least effective means to validate a UI design, 
especially if UI behaviour is included in the investigation. A dozen face to 
face interviews supported by static or even active prototypes, conducted with 
a variety of users would yield much more useful and reliable results. 

If you want to pat yourself on the back and tell everyone that 9 out of 10 
users prefer the new LibreButtonOMatic, then a survey will give you that but 
whether 9 out of 10 users actually do will be unrelated to that statistic.

Surely the UXers in the team know people who use these type of products (in 
fact a sprinkling of users of competitive products would add value). I'd be 
happy to work with other UXers to plan the investigation  and conduct a couple 
of structured interviews.

Regards,

Noh

> Completely agree :)
>
> Alex
>
> ---- On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:38:22 +0100 Charles-H. Schulz
> <charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> wrote ----
>
>
> A survey would be a great idea; in fact, it would help with asking
> ourselves the right question for the spec; in short, it would be a real
> work of User Experience.
>
> Even better news: I think Christoph Noack and Bjoern Balazs know just
> how to set up such a survey, but I might be perhaps too optimistic :-)
>
> Best,
>
> Charles.
>
>
> On 25/11/2011 00:00, Kévin PEIGNOT wrote:
> > Maybe we could publish a survey asking, for each part of Citrus UI
> > (explained in a few word) what people think about it ? As we did with
> our > first survey ?
> >
> > On each page a part of the survey, with a brief summary and if
> possible a > mockup. And why not at the end asking a "global
> impression" note. It's not > spec, but it permit to know what people
> think of the globals ideas ? >
> > Kévin
> >
> > 2011/11/24 Andrew Pullins <android2772@gmail.com>
> >
> >> Charles, Kevin, every one,
> >>
> >>
> >>> Citrus looks good. But as we explained, if there's no one
> wrting >>> specicications for eaxh part of citrus nothing will
> get done. >>>
> >>
> >> ok yes we do need to start on some specifications so that we can
> get >> started, but we have not talked about it all that much. first
> we need >> to decide on what we all agree on and change what we do
> not. if we get more >> people to agree with some things I would
> start some specifications, but I >> still don't know exactly what is
> needed to write one. could someone write a >> templet on what needs
> to be written. that would really help. till then >> there are still
> some people that have not said what they do not like about >>
> Citrus. if you wait any longer we'er going to have to just go with Citrus.
> >>
> >> It looks like we need to blog so that people don't get their hopes
> up. :-/ >>
> >>
> >> all the more reason to get this started NOW. and before you guys
> say it ONE >> MORE TIME. I know that we can not get this done in one
> shot, and that we >> need to do this ONE STEP AT A TIME. but now
> that we have some press on this >> and people know that we are
> working on this we NEED to get things rolling. >>
> >> Andrew
> >>
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