Yes, you can contribute to Forge Sprint 2011!
The KDE Forge sprint 2011 will be held in Madrid this year. We are looking for your contribution.This week we will be doing the Forge 2011 sprint in Madrid – and you have the chance to contribute: We...
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Basic Usability Testing at Home – notes from the workshop at Akademy 2013. By...
Jos Poortvliet of KDE fame has written a summary about the usability testing we did at Akademy 2013. We republish the article from his blog.In the weeks before Akademy 2013 I convinced KDE Usability...
View ArticleShape the Future of Managing Network Connections in KDE
On the occasion of the World Usability Day 2013, we ask you - the users - to help us shape the future of KDE network connection management.From the Forge Sprint 2011 in Madrid on, as part of my...
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Connect to Network Manager Prototype…
Building upon the lively response on the survey about the management of network connections in KDE, we now put a proposal for the further development up for discussion.Recently we put some thesis up...
View ArticleKNetworkManager: Approaching the finishing line
The next iteration of the KDE Network Manager brings it on the finishing line. Again we are looking for your feedback.We truly believe that good interaction design is the result of an iterative...
View ArticleKDE Network Manager: Sorting the details
We ask you to participate in a little survey to help us sort the details of network connections.We have been working hard to improve KDE Network Manager and we are still not done. Next we want to put...
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KDE Network Manager: Details sorted
More than 800 people participated in our online sorting of the KDE Network Manager details. In this article we present the results.Introduction In the course of improving KDE Network Manager we asked...
View ArticleKDE Network Manager: Understanding the mental model
We ask you to participate in a card-sorting study about the details of KDE Network Manager. With this study we want to better understand how to structure the available details.Introduction In our quest...
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KDE Network Manager: Results of the Card Sorting
Some weeks ago we asked you for your participation in the online sorting of KDE Network Manager details. This article presents the results.Introduction We have gone a long way with the redesign of the...
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Reprise of Akademy 2014: KCM for network manager
In the last time, we did a lot of effort to improve the network manager. Finally it has emerged to a highly elaborated plasmoid that intends to be easy to use, at least for users with simple setups....
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Basic Usability Testing at Home – notes from the workshop at Akademy 2013. By...
In the weeks before Akademy 2013 I convinced KDE Usability Guru Björn Balazs (from User Prompt) to lend his experience to a usability workshop I wanted to organize at the conference. The goal was to...
View ArticleShape the Future of Managing Network Connections in KDE
From the Forge Sprint 2011 in Madrid on, as part of my engagement for the OpenUsability.org initiative, I have been in constant contact with the KDE Solid people and esp. with Lamarque and Jan who are...
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Connect to Network Manager Prototype…
Recently we put some thesis up for discussion on how to improve KNetworkManager, the program that is used to manage Network Connections in KDE. The variety of inspiring contributions enthused us. We...
View ArticleKNetworkManager: Approaching the finishing line
We truly believe that good interaction design is the result of an iterative process. Feedback and inspiration is needed again and again. Working on the KDE Network Manager has been a great experiment...
View ArticleKDE Network Manager: Sorting the details
We have been working hard to improve KDE Network Manager and we are still not done. Next we want to put the focus on the massive amount of details that are available for the different kinds of...
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KDE Network Manager: Details sorted
Introduction In the course of improving KDE Network Manager we asked you for your feedback on the importance of details of wireless connections. Our trigger was the problem to display the large amount...
View ArticleKDE Network Manager: Understanding the mental model
Introduction In our quest for optimizing the UI of the KDE Network Manager, we now want to take the next level. As the general UI layout has more or less settled, we still struggle with the amount of...
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KDE Network Manager: Results of the Card Sorting
Introduction We have gone a long way with the redesign of the KDE Network Manager in the last year. While we are satisfied with the general UI approach we have found, we still need to actually sort the...
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Reprise of Akademy 2014: KCM for network manager
In the last time, we did a lot of effort to improve the network manager. Finally it has emerged to a highly elaborated plasmoid that intends to be easy to use, at least for users with simple setups....
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