Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2019-Aug-08

Present: Franklin, Heiko

Tickets

* not went into the details

Discussion

* Findings from Taiwan users collected during lectures (Franklin)
   + Default settings of image anchor in Writer -> can it be specified by users?
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123169
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126247
     solution could be
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87720
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87742
     alternatively to another option we could keep the last used setting
   + Distribution of objects as known from Draw/Impress missing in Writer
     + no ticket found, let's create one
     + but you cannot multi-select images
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126740 duplicate of:
         https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34438
   + The behavior of removing hyperlinks are different in Writer, Calc and Impress
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126705
   + Behavior of mail merge changed with some version confusing users
   + Users like the zoom slider at the status bar, the sidebar functionality,
     and switch to single toolbar (which will be superseded by the equivalent
     Notebookbar see https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125040

* Change the meeting somehow (Heiko)
   + not too many are interested to join so maybe have meetings less
     frequently, with different topics, maybe kind of question/answer
     or to scribble mockups?
   + we should listen more to the users and do more interviews (Franklin)
   + asking for issues would be QA work so perhaps we think about
     usability tests or standardized questionnaires
   => to be continued

   + we should listen more to the users and do more interviews (Franklin)
   + asking for issues would be QA work so perhaps we think about
     usability tests or standardized questionnaires
   => to be continued

the issue is, we don't have any automatic tracking features in LibO so it's
very, very difficult to track what is usefull, what not, what is an common
task that is not so easy in LibO than in other apps, ...

So have some standardized tests for the users, could help. In addition
maybe we can work here together with universities where students learn how
to make such kind of tests and analyse them.

cheers
Andreas_K