KDE 4 HIG - User Research
| Project name: | KDE 4 HIG - User Research |
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| Usability engineer: | Celeste Lyn Paul |
| Date of report: | June, 28th 2006 |
| Related URL: | KDE 4 HIG - User Research (PDF, 1MB) |
| Executive Summary: | The KDE4 Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) is a document which is meant to be a reference guide to developers and usability specialists. It has a unique audience: developers who are very analytical, adept with technology, and sometimes skeptical about ideas opposite of their own; and usability specialists and designers who know a lot of about users but not so much about code. These two groups think differently and have different opinions about interface guidelines, what good design is, and what constitutes as 'usability'. This poses a great design challenge in both content and architecture of the document. As such, it was the developers who were the inspiration for the creation of the document and so they will be considered above all other groups. KDE developers themselves are a multifaceted group. They come from different cultural, educational, and programming backgrounds. These experiences influence their potential usage of the HIG the most, and so experience and attitude was the primary property used to differentiate the different groups of users. |
| Success story: | This survey was used as a research base for the development of the KDE 4 Human Interface Guidelines. |
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