[Electrum-discuss] Usability testing

[Amir T. <zg...@ya...>]

Hi,

I've been doing usability testing with groups of people over the last few days, and here are my findings.

Going from the Electrum website to desktop is not so easy (we need packages).

The intro is very nerdy and difficult to understand. People find the 12 words thing to be confusing (do they have to be in order? what are these for? what's a wallet?). Choosing a password is weird (is it related to the 12 words?). Selecting a server is confusing (what are these? - servers should maybe be chosen randomly and switched between when one goes down).

We don't have multiple wallets yet but that will change.


Everyone seems to understand the Receive button intuitively.

Bitcoin addresses are not an easy concept to grasp for a beginning user.

>From discussions with Animazing, I'm going to nuke the buttons on the left and replace it with a normal menu bar. It's the best way to keep things simple while packing in sick features. Also Macs and Ubuntu have a shared menu bar which always exists anyway so we should use it (saves space on those platforms).