Re: [moregroupware-interface] Hi, and welcome

[Karsten D. <k.d...@fi...>]

Hi!

I took the freedom to subscribe (all) of you to the list, that weren't
subscribed yet. I hope you don't mind, and I think that all of you are
on this group have to be on the list as well.

Since the welcome mail of Alan did only reach a minority, I'll leave
it as a full quote below (something that I *strongly* discourage
otherwise!).

Welcome aboard, and I hope to see some great results from you people!

On Mo, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:54:51 +0000, Alan James Salmoni wrote:
> Hi Folks
> 
> I just thought that I would get the ball rolling on the HCI stuff by 
> asking a few questions.
> 
> Outside of K1's work (on the page that karsten set up for us at 
> http://www.k-fish.de/73.0.html), has anyone done any work that they 
> would like to share with us here?
> 
> Secondly, what does everyone's opinion on how to go about this usability 
> work? As Pauric said, there are probably 2 options to this, the first of 
> which is that we all dive in and use our experience and judgement to 
> come up heuristically with improvements: this would be a sort of ad-hoc 
> way of doing things that will probably not be very well organised, but 
> it will produce something quickly for the MGW team to work on.
> 
> The second idea is to start from the beginning and do a complete HCI job 
> on it. I don't want to spend months and months playing around with 
> things, and I cannot imagine that the coders want to wait for us to come 
> around, but this seems to me to be a good opportunity to do some great 
> work. The kind of things that we could do would be task analysis, user 
> requirements and so on. This is the area in which I am most experienced 
> so I naturally favour it, and it will produce a more complete "job", but 
> it will take longer than the other method.
> 
> Feel free to jump in with comments, gripes or opinions!
> 
> Alan.

Alan, I agree with you, the second idea will take longer but give
better results. I think time is not that critical, we have technical
issues to solve (just look at the bug tracker...), so we won't have to
wait for you, I fear.

Thanks,
Karsten
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