[GRASS-dev] GRASS in a usability review

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Hello GRASS developers,
OpenUsabilty has opened a call for projects to participate the SoC like usability review. The deadline is the 20.02.2008.

Since I think that GRASS could really benefit from such a opportunity I took the freedom to create a wiki page on this issue:
http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/Usability

Please feel free to edit it and add your comments, perceptions etc.
Maybe we can even end up with usability guidelines for GRASS and GRASS ADDONS.

What do you think?

I hope that my thoughts and idea is welcomed and look forward to discuss this issue with you.

Kind regards,
Timme

Cited from OpenUsablity:
Season of Usability is a series of sponsored student projects to
encourage students of usability, user-interface design, and interaction
design to get involved with Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS).
During a 3 to 6 month collaboration, students work together with an
experienced usability mentor and key developers of the project to
improve the user experience of a FLOSS application. The next Season of
Usability with 8 student projects will start in Spring 2008.

Season of Usability 2008 - Call for Projects Questionnaire -

http://85.10.193.9/UCCASS/survey.php?sid=47

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On 13.02.2008 23:57, Tim Michelsen wrote:

Hello GRASS developers,
OpenUsabilty has opened a call for projects to participate the SoC like usability review. The deadline is the 20.02.2008.

Since I think that GRASS could really benefit from such a opportunity I took the freedom to create a wiki page on this issue:
http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/Usability

What do you think?

Yes! That would be a great opportunity, not to be missed. I think we should definitely participate. What does that require from us? (In SoC we needed to assign a Mentor) The user interfaces could use guidelines from usability experts, to point out things which we might take for granted, streamlining the UI and maybe something else.

I hope that my thoughts and idea is welcomed and look forward to discuss this issue with you.

As I said I think we should use this opportunity as long as we have the means. I'm always interested in talking about usability for GRASS. Hope we get some more interest then in the past...

--Wolf

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