Back to Lecturing for the day
Amritpal Singh Bhachu,
In my last post, I spoke about my transition from academia to industry. One thing that I felt I would…
Topic: Research
There are 18 posts filed under the topic 'Research'.
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Academia vs Industry
Amritpal Singh Bhachu,
I have now worked at Canonical, ‘The company behind Ubuntu,’ for almost 4 months. The time has flown by, and…
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Ubuntu Developer Summit: Design Theatre
Paul Sladen,
Normally the Ubuntu/Canonical Design Team are busy working on our own projects, but it makes a really good change to…
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Berlin: Typobau: Ubuntu Arabic Ausstellung/Exhibition
Paul Sladen,
Some of original sketches for Ubuntu Arabic are about to go on display in Berlin! We’ve talked before about the…
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Notes from the Mobile World Congress 2012
Mika Meskanen,
Ubuntu and Canonical had a very strong presence at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The main attraction was…
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About Usability Testing – Recruiting
Charline Poirier,
Every three months, I conduct benchmark usability testing. I’m calling these tests ‘benchmark testing’ because the aim of these sessions…
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Убу́нту Моно: «Г» «Њ њ Љ љ» «Ђ ђ Ћ ћ»
Paul Sladen,
Amélie Bonet at Dalton Maag has drawn up redesigns for a number of the Cyrillic and Serbian/Balkans characters that weren’t as clear, or ideal as they could have been. If you use these characters, please help give feedback about whether the suggested improvements are sufficient, or whether they could be improved further. For Greek, there is also a proposed fix to monospace Gamma.
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Ubuntu Phone, Tablet and TV – discussion opened
Mika Meskanen,
Big thanks to everyone who turned up at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando to discuss Ubuntu’s future on new…
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Ubuntu Arabic, in print!
Paul Sladen,
A beta of Ubuntu Font Family Arabic, in print as part of the testing and debugging process for the Arabic coverage.
The magazine is an intriguing tri-lingual production published by the Cultural Office of Saudi Arabia in Germany … German and English articles using Latin script at one cover and Arabic from the other.
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Thunderbird & Evolution Usability Testing
Charline Poirier,
Recently we hired an external consultant to compare the usability of 2 email clients: Thunderbird and Evolution. I have taken…
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Unity Benchmark Usability – April 2011
Charline Poirier,
First and last impressions of Unity were that it was quite user-friendly, and pleasing in its design and ease of…
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Thunderbird in the Usability Lab!
Charline Poirier,
I have just completed sessions of usability testing of Thunderbird. This time, I had the pleasure of working with…
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Can We Appropriate Design?
Charline Poirier,
’Appropriation’ – the taking of a product and using it for one’s own purposes, in ways unintended by the product…
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Participate in research
Alejandra Obregon,
Are you a developer or systems administrator that uses Ubuntu at work and/or at home?
We’re looking for people who might be available to help us on a current research project in London on the 3rd and 10th December. If this sounds like you please get in touch.
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Usability Testing of Unity
Charline Poirier,
In preparation for UDS, we conducted usability testing of Unity with general public users. We are now better informed as…
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Why do you use Ubuntu?
Alejandra Obregon,
We’ve been looking at making developments to the Ubuntu website that explore and highlight the reasons for using Ubuntu above and beyond the features of the products. One idea we had was to invite community members and Ubuntu users to tweet or post about why they use Ubuntu and display this on the site. The community’s voice on the website would demonstrate one of the key drivers for using Ubuntu: showing the strength and commitment of the community, not just telling visitors about it. Adding the voice and personality of the community to the websites will enable members and users to participate in our site’s messaging and to share their passion for the concept and principles on which Ubuntu is based.
We decided to run a test yesterday to see how you responded and whether there was interest. There are some great replies.
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How are your users feeling? Example from Rhythmbox
Charline Poirier,
When conducting and writing up user research findings, I make a point of defining the experience goals alongside participant’s actual…
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CHI paper: What would other programmers do: suggesting solutions to error messages
Ivanka Majic,
Abstract Interpreting compiler errors and exception messages is challenging for novice programmers. Presenting examples of how other programmers have corrected…