[Qgis-developer] Qgis usability tests

[Tim Sutton]

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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