[CLUE-Talk] Sun study on Gnome as seen by new users

[Kevin Cullis]

I belong to the GNOME GUI and there are some interesting discussions
going on there.  Bottomline: GNOME and KDE are TOO configurable for
average users.  They are looking at my and a few others suggestion that
reduce the default configuration to a similar GUI to Mac and Windows
with improvements and the make the GUI configurable by novice,
intermediate, and expert.  So we'll see how far this gets implemented.

This points our the necessity of the famous "Mom Test," if my Mom can't
figure it out, I need to go back to the drawing board.  It's basically a
sanity check on what I've been doing.

Kevin

B O'Fallon wrote:
> 
> As a long-time computer user, I find that I sometimes have trouble
> when talking to new users seeing things as they see them and
> understanding what they find confusing when these things appear
> "obvious" to me.
> 
> This page is about tests that Sun ran on new users with Gnome, and
> might be worth reading to see the difficulties of developing a "user
> friendly" GUI.
> 
>     http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/usabilitytests.html
> 
> BOF
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