Re: [Usability] Suggestion for the actual UI of GTK+'s NewFileSelector

[Rodney Dawes <dobey free fr>]

Judging from the volume of mail from you in this thread, and the Subject
lines in your replies, I don't guess you are replying to daily digests.
Please don't cut and paste text from other mails that you are replying
to, in your reply to someone else's mail. It makes it look as if the
person you are replying to, said something they did not, and is very
confusing. I certainly don't like to get replies to my mail, and then
have it be full of replies to other mails, without those other mails
even being referenced, other than the quoted text. For instance, the
bit below is not a reply to my mail. It is a reply to a statement in
another sub-thread about validity of usability tests. And it is in the
reply to my mail. I read it, and was quite confused, as this is not a
statement from me.

-- dobey


On Mër , 2004-01-07 at 15:39, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
> >Even testing with low-fidelity mock-ups, such as paper
> >prototypes or proposed screen shots, produces valid results.
> 
> Sure, but if they have never used nothing similar to any OS some people
> might be buffled and not understand what it does. Path Navigator is not my
> innovation at all, but it is nevertheless an innovation. And it is true that
> innovative things don't always getting understood immediately because
> familiarity is not always present.
> 
> BTW, I never claimed that my Path Navigator's *presentation* in the mockup
> is the final thing. Hours after I put my original mockup up I had already
> made a different presentation for it so depending how you present it in a
> mockup, people will understand it or not. If its visuals are done correctly
> so people figure it out immediately, I really don't see anyong going back to
> the archaic up/back buttons and the combo boxes. Think "spatial nautilus"
> here. Many hated the idea (including myself), however Alex and Seth tried to
> convince us that "after you use it, you will never go back". Same here.  ;-)
> 
> Eugenia