KDE Usability Project
KDE Usability People
- Florian Grässle
- Celeste Lyn Paul
- Ellen Reitmayr
- Olaf Jan Schmidt
- Aaron Seigo
- Tina Trillitzsch
- Thomas Zander
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Florian GrässleFlorian got in touch with KDE usability in 2004 when he started to show overall interest in the usability of open source projects. Besides providing advice to developers and conducting usability reviews he has been promoting the use of further usability methods like paper prototyping and personas during the development process of KDE applications. Location: Koblenz, Germany |
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Celeste Lyn PaulCeleste got involved with KDE in 2004. Most of her work has been in with the Edutainment project, where she helps developers design interfaces for children. She is also involved with the HCI workgroup, where artists, usability engineers, accessiblity specialists, and the i18n projects collaborate to improve the user experinece. She also represent KDE Usability at conferences and maintain the KDE Usability Project website. Her main HCI interest is the user's relationship to information. Meaning, context, quality, and organization of information all shape how a user builds a picture of a system and how well they understand it. She strives to help developers build better information systems which will aid the user in completing their goals more successfully. Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States |
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Ellen ReitmayrEllen has been working on KDE usability since 2004. Besides accompanying the development process of several KDE applications, she is working towards an improved overall usability of the KDE desktop by maintaining the Human Interface Guidelines for KDE4, and introducing a user-centered development process. In the scope of the Human Computer Interaction workgroup she is promoting a closer collaboration of accessibility, design, documentation, internationalisation, usability and development. Location: Berlin, Germany |
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Olaf Jan SchmidtOlaf coordinates the efforts to make KDE accessible and usable to people with disabilities. This topic has an overlap with general usability work (e.g. reviews, user testing and guidelines). You could see accessibility as a sub-set of usability (focussing on specific users), or usability as a subset of accessibility (usability problems are very often accessibility barriers as well), or both as twins. Olaf feels working together with the nice and competent people in the KDE Usability team is a lot of fun. Location: Bonn, Germany |
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Aaron SeigoAaron has been working with the KDE usability project since 2002, often serving as a bridge between usability experts and software developers. Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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Tina TrillitzschTina is currently exploring different methods of modelling users and their tasks and goals in order to help focus KDE on the needs of real people. One of her interests is the development and use of personas, a topic about which she already hosted a small exercise at Akademy 2005. She has worked on KDevelop and DigiKam and more recently helped, together with other members of the kde-usability and kde-accessibility teams, to test KDE's accessibility features on a number of partially-sighted users. Location: Berlin, Germany |
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Thomas ZanderThomas got introduced to KDE in the KDE1 days and helped author the styleguide for the KDE2 meeting. His working background and expertise is in both coding and doing interaction design which he has been doing in KDE and in his day job for about 6 years. Most KOffice usability questions get directed to him and Thomas has been involved in redesigning the startup dialog (tmplate chooser) for all KOffice applications more recently. Projects: KDEPim, KOffice |
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