Re: [Usability] Usability Digest, Vol 66, Issue 13

[Allan Caeg <allancaeg gmail com>]

Sounds interesting. Personally, I need such an app. Calum, thanks for the links! :)

Regards,

Allan

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  1. [Fwd: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients...]
     (Guy Lunardi)
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:10:33 -0600
From: "Guy Lunardi" <GLunardi novell com>
To: <usability gnome org>,"Guy Lunardi" <GLunardi novell com>
Subject: [Usability] [Fwd: Do-Gooders and Other Free License
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Bonjour,

 What do you think of this idea? I really like their software and I
think that even if only a few projects take advantage of making mockups
with it, it's a great story for them to enable the GNOME project.

 Please let Stormy or I know what you think :-).

Also, I understand of course that YOU do not need such a tool. Inkscape and the likes can do the same. The idea is for everyone else (people like myself) to generate mockups to share their ideas.


Best,
-Guy



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From: "Guy Lunardi" <glunardi novell com> <GLunardi novell com>
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Sent: Sun Oct 11 08:23:37 2009
Subject: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients...
All,

While I realize that their software doesn't use any GNOME technologies,
it is still a very useful tool that I personally use often for projects.

I was wondering if anyone thought that contacting Balsamiq and asking
them to consider donating licenses to GNOME Foundation members would be
useful?
http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups

Having used their software for quite some time, I know that the projects
we used it for had a much great user experience focus during the early
development cycles because of it.

It might be a great opportunity for GNOME to increase its emphasis on
user experience. We could for example use this software as part of some
of our outreach programs (collect feedback earlier on designs).

Please let me know what you think.

Best regards,
-Guy


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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:04:36 +0100
From: Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>
To: Guy Lunardi <glunardi novell com>
Cc: usability gnome org
Subject: Re: [Usability] [Fwd: Do-Gooders and Other Free License
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On 15 Oct 2009, at 17:10, Guy Lunardi wrote:

> Also, I understand of course that YOU do not need such a tool.
> Inkscape and the likes can do the same. The idea is for everyone
> else (people like myself) to generate mockups to share their ideas.

There's actually a whole bunch of tools out there for doing this sort
of thing now... ForeUI (Java) and FlairBuilder (AIR) are another
couple of good cross-platform ones:

<http://www.foreui.com/>
<http://www.flairbuilder.com/>

CogTool from Carnegie Mellon is a particularly interesting one -- it's
free and open source, and it automatically evaluates your prototypes
using a predictive human performance model.  But that, as you might
expect, does make it a bit harder to learn and use:

<http://cogtool.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/>

(Despite apparently just being a Java + clisp app, they say it doesn't
run on Linux and there are no plans to make it do so -- maybe that
would be an interesting project for somebody here?)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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> From: "Guy Lunardi" <glunardi novell com> <GLunardi novell com>
> To:  <marketing-list gnome org>
> Sent: Sun Oct 11 08:23:37 2009
> Subject: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients...
> All,
>
> While I realize that their software doesn't use any GNOME
> technologies,
> it is still a very useful tool that I personally use often for
> projects.
>
> I was wondering if anyone thought that contacting Balsamiq and asking
> them to consider donating licenses to GNOME Foundation members would
> be
> useful?
> http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups
>
> Having used their software for quite some time, I know that the
> projects
> we used it for had a much great user experience focus during the early
> development cycles because of it.
>
> It might be a great opportunity for GNOME to increase its emphasis on
> user experience. We could for example use this software as part of
> some
> of our outreach programs (collect feedback earlier on designs).
>
> Please let me know what you think.
>
> Best regards,
> -Guy
>
>
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