On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 21:39 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Hi folks, > > Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 21:35 -0500, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: > >> Like Paul suggests, maybe it would be a good time to conduct a usability > >> study among Fedora users? I understand that Fedora advances through its > >> contributors, but it's supported by its users. > > > > Just to be very clear, I'm not suggesting that the Fedora Project has > > the resources to do such a study. They're very time consuming and can > > be costly. So the chances are *very* small of all those costs coming > > out of our (equally) small budget. > > > > What I suggested was that interested and experienced community members > > band together to design and implement these tests. There is much more > > to usability testing than simply making lists of what people would like > > to see. It's a highly organized science of its own. Those difficulties > > translate directly into high costs, which is why we don't conduct them > > centrally. So while I agree that now is "a good time" to do it, that > > doesn't solve the problem of *who* is going to do it, and *how*. > > If it's any help at all, it is really really easy to conduct your own > usability tests. You need to have a target for the test first. We did > this recently at FUDcon for the Fedora website. I'll walk you through > exactly how we did this quickly so you can see how to do it yourself: Well hush my mouth, this sounds great. But the key factor is the "target" part -- and mostly the studies that I've seen users advocate is a limitless problem set, without boundaries. So I mistakenly brought that knee-jerk bias to this conversation, which is my own fault. -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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