KDE Usability Project
News Archives
November 25, 2004: Article on Usable GUI Design |
| User Instinct has posted an article on usable GUI design which describes five key points on creating a usable UI design when developing F/OSS. |
November 8, 2004: Article on Usable GUI Design |
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Frans Englich recently posted an interview with Pete Gordon on portable usability labs and how they could help open source usability. |
September 23, 2004: KDE 3.3 Usability Study and Review on userinstinct.com |
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UserInstinct.com recently published a usability study on KDE 3.3. The study describes the things KDE does well and addresses several issues we have been working on improving. The user test includes comments from the test subjects as they use KDE which are very useful to the design and testing process. Feedback from the community like this helps the usability team focus on projects which will benefit the community the most. |
September 3, 2004: News about aKademy, New Human Interface Guidelines |
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Over 230 KDE developers attended aKademy 2004. aKademy was especially exciting for usability because of the introduction of the Unix Accessibility Forum and the success of the Usability Forum with the participation of Relevantive AG and their usability lab setup. The conference also allowed participating developers organize goals for better usability guidelines. The rewriting of the KDE Accessiblity Guidelines, Community Identity Guidelines and Human Interface Guidelines is now underway. Discussion of the HIG as well as the other guidelines is available through the kde-guidelines mailing list. |
February 27, 2003: usability.kde.org ported to new design |
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Please send any feedback to webmaster@usability.kde.org.
Still to do:
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February 27, 2003: Mosfet active on kde-usability |
| Well known Linux advocate and KDE contributor Mosfet has joined a KDE mailing list for the first time in a year and luckily for us it was kde-usability. He is currently planning on making the theme manager useful again, so you can do something like install Keramik or his own Liquid theme without having to individually select the colour settings, window decoration and style in KControl. |
September 17, 2002: A paper on KDE and Usability |
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Jason Bainbridge has submitted an abstract of a paper on KDE and Usability that
hopefully will be presented at Linux.conf.au 2003
in Perth, Australia next January. The abstract of the paper that was prepared with asistance
from A. Seigo is available here.
Update: Unfortunately Jason wasn't able to present but his paper will soon be published and made available. |
September 15, 2002: A taste of things to come |
There are many efforts curently underway in regards to improving Usability
within KDE and the following is a small sample of these.
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September 15, 2002: A new host and a renewed effort |
| Recently we have had problems with the up time of the website but we have migrated across to the main master.kde.org server so in the future we should have much better stability. To coincide with this move there is a lot of effort currently underway to improve the functionality of the site and make it a valuable resource for Usability within KDE. |
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