Hi All, I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of any resources about Linux presentation layer standards. I'm pretty new to Linux and any...
... Hi, Dave. If I understand your question rightly, you're looking for something like Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for Linux. Is that correct? I have...
... Yeah, GNOME nd KDE are both used a lot, and they are quite similar from the user experience point of view. I wouldn't consider any other environment. The...
... KDE has it's own style guide: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/basics/index.html "This document attempts to specify the...
KDE also has UI Guidelines: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/design/ui/ I can't vouch for their quality, but when I was reviewing guidelines for a client...
Thanks all. I knew there wouldn't be one unified standard (that's fairly against the grain of the whole point of Linux, eh ;), but was interested to see what ...
For people in the Bay Area or keen travellers the following course may be of interest - although not strictly on Agile usability Mary speaks a lot about...
This is an interesting point about tools - I have found there are several steps a platform's facilitator can take to promote UI guidelines flourish across the...
... guidelines ... never" ... As a general rule, yes, the concepts and guidelines need to be consistent and fit together logically as much as possible. But,...
... Right, because conventional windows platforms let you work in any discipline/domain you care to name. Where it gets more interesting is in specialised...
Maybe I've just been at this too long, but it seems to me that "it's all been done before". Working for a large software company which produces "shrinkwrap"...
... There is value to doing the creative work that you describe. However, it is highly risky, and almost impossible to sell to most organizations. My ...
... First, it is important to acknowledge not all companies actually want to innovate on design - they may well be more interested in copying features and...
... I agree. Those companies have a strategy. If it ain't broken, don't fix it. ... The impacts are often slow and not easy to measure. The single biggest...
... I think that principle is one people often misunderstand, because they confuse "simple" with "easy". The easy thing to do is often to say, "make it just...
Jeff Grover wrote: ... a great deal of the usability input we get whether "evolutionary" or "revolutionary" originates from or is relative to products...
... I can only agree with what's been posted so far. If there isn't a financial reason for changing the software, it's going to be a hard sell. I'm hearing...
I'm looking for folks out there who've altered usability techniques to better fit them into an agile context... even better combined them with techniques that...
Josh's idea below is a great thought, but it may not lead to the desired result As Ron mentioned, if the desire is to ship a "feature like the competitor" then...
... I checked if that was already invented. It was! It's protected by three US patents, others pending. http://www.rppresenter.com/ "RemotePoint Global...
I suspect others doing some variation of user centered design might have run into this: There's one UCD person on the project, and 4 or 5 analysts. The ...
... It seems to me that you need to engage the analysts in ways that get them to convey raw data without suggesting that you don't respect their analytical...
Jeff, I don't think you can do effective requirements gathering without a UCD person either leading, or being an integral part of, the site visit team. At my...
Jeff, I noticed you stated that "The analysts rush out and interview lots of users ..." Does the UCD person go with them?? If not, why not. I have found that ...
I agree that Jeff's project is best served by UCD people going along and observing how people work, but this is often easier said than done. "Analyst" often...
Intentionally Provocative Post to Get a Conversation Going: Having listened to Jeff for a couple of years ;-) and watching the current recommendations in UCD,...
