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KDE 4 HIG - User Research

Project name:KDE 4 HIG - User Research
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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