Revision as of 13:07, 4 October 2010

MeeGo QA-tools User Experience

This is the main page for user experience (UX) work done for MeeGo QA-tools. The purpose of the UX activities is to improve the QA-tools so that they are easier, more efficient and more pleasant to use. For this, end-user feedback is crucial.

This page is meant for a proposal of UX task list and other UX-related content, such as UX evaluation reports and UI drafts for discussion among the community. Even if some traditional user-centered design methods (user studies, usability tests etc.) require offline working, the results of those should be published here or be directly filed as enhancements/bugs to Bugzilla.

Finished and Ongoing Work

Testrunner-UI

• Finished tasks:
  • Results of user studies and other end-user feedback
• Ongoing tasks:
  • Design UI improvements based on user feedback
  • Conduct an expert evaluation of the latest version
  • Report the improvement proposals to Bugzilla

Testplanner

• Finished tasks:
  • Provide UX support for the development of the initial version
• Ongoing tasks:
  • Conduct an expert evaluation of the latest version
  • Report the improvement proposals to Bugzilla

Proposal for Future Work

• Every Tool
  • Check the end-user documentation
  • Evaluate the ease of the installation and the first time use
  • Improve visual look of the GUI tools, e.g. improve icons and other graphical elements

• MIN
  • Evaluate the graphical UI
  • Design UI improvements
    • If there is a need for a bigger UI renewal, different layout drafts should be provided for further discussion
  • Report the improvement proposals to Bugzilla

• Testrunner-lite, Testrunner-UI and Testplanner
  • Gather more end-user feedback

• MeeGo QA Reporting Tool
  • Evaluate the reporting tool and give feedback to the developers

How to Participate

The UX work is no different from the other development work of QA-tools. You can, for instance, work on the tasks presented on this page or just propose new tasks. In general, the best channels for participating are:

• #meego-qa-tools IRC channel on irc.freenode.net for discussing about the tools
• Bugzilla for reporting enhancement ideas or usability problems