Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: LO Writer UI Analysis

On 01/31/2013 06:55 PM, Heiko Tietze wrote:
> Jay Lozier wrote
> > My thought is that users who heavily use software may prefer
> > menus over ribbons while those who do not use the software
> > much prefer ribbons.
> That argumentation is too simple.
>
> Means of self rated expertise from 1=beginner, 2=average user, to 3=expert
> (no one wants to be a beginner, but when do you become an expert?) grouped
> by ribbon vs. toolbar (semantic differential; first value agree totally with
> ribbons last with toolbar, all other between):
> 2.739712
> 2.800813
> 2.780000
> 2.757752
> 2.736434
> 2.738717
Based on these numbers most people are rating themselves as expert 
users. One problem could be they are comparing themselves to true 
beginners and not to real experts.
> Of course there are some indicators that support your idea, like power user
> of writer (toolbars are preferred) vs. user of impress (ribbons have
> attraction).
Interesting. The useful of ribbons and toolbars varies from application 
to application. This implies the analysis is not simply one is all the 
other is all good but for certain applications one is better. The 
indicates there is underlying reason based on the nature of the 
application and how it is typically used. This suggests that the best UI 
to the user depends heavily on which modules they primarily use.

IMHO this suggests that UI the combines both somehow may be the best. 
The question then is what elements from each UI should be included.

I primarily use Writer and Calc so my natural bias would be towards 
toolbars.
> Breakdown Table of Descriptive Statistics (libreoffice)  N=4275
> Writer  Calc            Impress
> 3.926230        3.031762        2.421107
> 3.883627        3.140731        2.456022
> 3.842942        3.129225        2.397614
> 3.885880        3.290135        2.214700
> 3.888545        3.258514        2.221362
> 4.075919        3.379597        2.291815
>
> Sorry for simple analysis and sloppy output. But calculation and better
> presentation needs some time. And it's late now ;-).
>
>
>
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