Re: [libreoffice-design] Think, don't just do - WAS: Impress remote

Hello Mirek, Björn,

from Björns mail:
> > I have offered this before and I do it again now. I am willing to help you
> > defining the requirements. I can help you to conduct the user research to
> > find
> > and validate the requirements. I can help you to deerive the needed
> > artifacts,
> > like personas, goals, situationas, szenarios. I can help you to work with
> > them.
>
> I would prefer if you posted a proposal of a way to include these in our
> idea workflow [1] on your user page.

I absolutely agree with Mirek. Your offers have always seemed
relatively vague to me. I would find it very interesting to know how
to best work with what you have to offer.


> To be honest, I don't have a very positive experience with user research.

Hooey... out of genuine curiosity: where/how have you collected your
experiences?


> > From my experience, in most cases, the problems with the current design are
> so blatant that designer can rely on his own experience with the software
> and so painful that the designer wouldn't even think of including them in
> his proposal.

To some (largeish) degree that's probably true in LibO... but user
research might at least _help_ with priorisation of problem points. As
in, you or I or [design team member] are not the (only) people whose
problems we are/we should be trying to solve.


> It's much more likely that the designer will have some
> omissions in his proposal that impede usability, and it's very important to
> test for those.
> If you know of any open-source tools that would help us produce some simple
> prototypes, please speak up.

Seconded.


> > Foget the revolution - find ways to step-by-step transform LibreOffice.

:) This point has been made quite a number of times before. So yes, we
are covered.


Astron.

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