[Qgis-developer] Qgis usability tests

Fri Feb 11 15:12:37 EST 2011

Thanks Nathan. As I stated on the paper too, there is something special
about Qgis software that the designers of the software put effort on users'
needs which is very new in gis area.

Aslı

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for that Asli, looks really good.   I have only had a quick look
> through but noticed a few things that I might be able to work on to fix the
> user experience.
>
> Good work.
>
> It would be good to get one of these done every now and then in order to
> make sure we are making things easy for the users.
>
> - Nathan
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:21 PM, yilmaz asli <aslimail2me at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is the link, you can also find it from here.
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B1OP4EhyYSeMZDdjMTZiOTYtNWJiYi00OGI4LWI3MGYtNjIxZWZmZTIzZDhl&hl=en&authkey=CKiDx6AB
>>
>>
>> thanks..
>> Aslı
>>   On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Asli,
>>>
>>> Could you upload it to Google Docs and share the link that way?
>>>  Looking forward to reading it.
>>>
>>> - Nathan
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:15 PM, yilmaz asli <aslimail2me at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I tried to attach the report but it is blocked some how,  needs
>>>> administors' acception, I think..
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Aslı
>>>>
>>>>   On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:10 AM, yilmaz asli <aslimail2me at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Nathan,
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok. In two weeks, I am going to finalize and share it on the mailing
>>>>> list. Thanks for your interest.
>>>>>
>>>>> Aslı.
>>>>>
>>>>>   On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> > Aslı,
>>>>>> > If you could, are you able to share it on the mailing lists?  I
>>>>>> would really
>>>>>> > like to read it and see what you came up with, I think it could be
>>>>>> quite
>>>>>> > interesting.
>>>>>> > - Nathan
>>>>>> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:42 PM, yilmaz asli <
>>>>>> aslimail2me at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> It is Qgis 1.6. In the end of the report, there are suggestions
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> >> refers to the cases in the study and for better improvements of
>>>>>> them. During
>>>>>> >> the study, Assoc. Prof. Dr.Kursat Cağıltay was my advisor. It was
>>>>>> just
>>>>>> >> final homework of a Human Computer Interaction (HCI) course, but
>>>>>> turned out
>>>>>> >> to be a nice report I suppose. It is a user-based one.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> Actually, I do interface design because of my profession. I work in
>>>>>> >> Modelling and Simulation Research and Development Center in METU.
>>>>>> We do
>>>>>> >> usability tests on simulator interfaces. But I am doing Phd at
>>>>>> Geodetic and
>>>>>> >> Geographic Information Technologies Division at METU.This time, I
>>>>>> wanted
>>>>>> >> study Gis area.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> How do you welcome these kind of research? I know that you have
>>>>>> meetings
>>>>>> >> that developers do presentations and share their report. I can send
>>>>>> it here
>>>>>> >> before or the committee?
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> Here are some links:
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> http://www.ggit.metu.edu.tr/ (GGIT department at METU)
>>>>>> >> http://www.metu.edu.tr/ (METU web site)
>>>>>> >> http://www.modsimmer.metu.edu.tr/ ( Modelling and Simulation
>>>>>> Center at
>>>>>> >> METU)
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> best regards
>>>>>> >> --
>>>>>> >> Aslı Yılmaz
>>>>>> >> Industrial Designer METU'05
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Werner Macho <
>>>>>> werner.macho at gmail.com>
>>>>>> >> wrote:
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> Hi!
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>>> finallizing the report now. I would like to share it with you if
>>>>>> >>>> possible when I finished.
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> That sounds really great .. If there are some hints for
>>>>>> improvement in
>>>>>> >>> the report I'm sure we'll try to bring it to the current version.
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> On what version of QGIS is your report based?
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> kind regards
>>>>>> >>> Werner
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> --
>>>>>> >> Aslı Yılmaz
>>>>>> >> Industrial Designer METU'05
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What would be really nice too would be to extend out HIG document (at
>>>>>> the bottom of CODING in root of source) to include much more detailed
>>>>>> guidelines on how developers should achieve good usability and
>>>>>> consistent ui.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I too am pleased to hear of your work and look forward to reading your
>>>>>> report.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tim
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>  Aslı Yılmaz
>>>>> Industrial Designer METU'05
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>  Aslı Yılmaz
>>>> Industrial Designer METU'05
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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>> --
>>  Aslı Yılmaz
>> Industrial Designer METU'05
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