Tomeu, I think my principal and teachers would support this. And, the kids would love it. Let me know. Gerald <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 15:36, Christian Marc Schmidt <<a href="mailto:christianmarc@gmail.com">christianmarc@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Hi Sugar Design Group: > > > I enjoyed the meeting yesterday, and think we ended up making several good > decisions. However, regarding the Home view, I am now beginning to wonder if > we are doing the right thing by hastily changing the design without > conducting a proper qualitative study. > I am only questioning it because I feel that, with every major design > change, it would be best if we had real evidence, beyond just the anecdotal. > Ideally, I envision the design team being a part of these observations, and > systematically testing design decisions in the field with a number of > participants. It need not be more than say a sampling of 20-30 students of > various age-groups, but the insight from these observations could really > drive us to make more informed design decisions, based on more than just our > opinions (which, as we saw yesterday, tends to lead to compromise). > So, I personally think that we are at a point where we should try and > arrange for some user-testing for the design group, however we facilitate > it, before proceeding with any revisions to the existing design (though I > wouldn't want that to hold us back from adding any additional features like > the thumbnail view, that continue to build out the UI to match the original > design intent). I have a little experience putting together qualitative test > protocols, and while I'm not sure exactly how to facilitate these testing > sessions, I think some of you may have ideas. > What do you think? Should we use our meeting next Saturday to discuss our > options for testing? Maybe Gerald's deployment in New York would be a good fit? Regards, Tomeu -- ŤSugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.ť - David Farning _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div>