Re: [Electrum-discuss] Usability testing

[Animazing <ani...@gm...>]

Hi,

Very interesting results, although I'm not too surprised that it's
difficult for non technical people to get into it.

I think a lot of the problems described could be resolved with a wizard on
first run.

The left side of the dialog will always have an accompanying description of
what is happening. While the right side will have information and/or
configuration panels.


   1. The first dialog could be a general introduction. It would have a
   text about what will be done in this wizard and it would explain the basic
   principle of a bitcoin wallet.
   2. The next dialog would explain why we need to encrypt the generated
   wallet with the password input on the right side.
   3. This dialog would display the seed and 12 words on the right hand
   side and on the left hand side could be a little story about what those
   words represent tying into the previous stories about wallets.

The server selection stuff should be removed from the basic configuration
all together in my humble opinion. There is no reason end users should have
to deal with it. It should just auto-pick a server.

Would this be a solution?




On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Amir Taaki <zg...@ya...> wrote:

> 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).
>
>
>
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