HI Gabbe, On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Gabbe Nord <gabbe.nord@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > An idea is to make a popup that comes up occasionally (maybe once a month or > so) when starting/closing the application. This popup could do several > things that could increase the participation of users, for example: > > a) Provide encouragement for involvement. Like "Do you like this > application? Help improve it by visiting our forums and let us know what you > think!". I think this is a good idea. :) > b) Provide direct links to ongoing user surveys. This is a golden one for > any application I really think. In UI-design, contact and feedback from the > end-user (the people that actually use your application) is golden. > Especially for smaller development teams, where you've been > developing/designing the same application for very long, which of course > makes every part of the UI natural and intuitive to you > Since it's free and open source, people hopefully/likely won't mind helping > out this way. Not everyone has the economy to donate actual money to all > projects around there, but anyone can sit down and state pro's, con's and > perceived issues with the software. You just need an incentive (that the dev > actually care about what you think, and the fact that you can use the > software for free is probably usually very well enough) and an easy way of > doing it. An ongoing, shorter survey (5-10mins maybe) can give tons of very > very valid and good information form your actual users. I hadn't considered this. If I created such a survey, I would be concerned that my own bias would be injected into the questions themselves. Can you suggest a few sample questions that might exist in such a survey? > c) Provide an easy way to donate. Some people actually have a good income > and can without a doubt donate money. Nicely asking to donate spare cash if > you're satisfied could probably generate some donations this way, if people > also are somewhat frequently reminded of it. I could add a mechanism like this to (a). > I have some experience of both UI-design and the principles around that, and > also constructing good surveys, and I would love to help out in any way I > can. Like someone else in this thread said, not everyone can code, but that > shouldn't stop them from being able to contribute. I can't speak for other developers, but I find your suggestions to be very helpful. On a personal note, I would absolutely love feedback on the UI design of both midisnoop and synthclone. I don't have a problem with either UI, but UI design is *not* my forte, and I have a bias about the intuitiveness of both UIs, given that I built them. Thank you for all your help and feedback. :) -- Devin Anderson surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com blog - http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/ midisnoop - http://midisnoop.googlecode.com/ psinsights - http://psinsights.googlecode.com/ synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
