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Well, the last week was really a full-time working time to me, most because my university research came back to the road. So here is an insight of what I'm doing.
LibreOffice wallpapers
Thanks to feedback by the LibreOffice's Marketing Team, I improved my first wallpapers with the LibreOffice's Initial Mimetype Icons, normalizing the logo and increasing their size. Many thanks to they! Finally, I skipped from GIMP's post-production and re-edited everything in Blender's Node Compositor.
Wallpapers 1: 1920x1080px Widescreen (16:10):
Wallpapers 1: 1600x1200px Fullscreen (4:3):
Wallpapers 2: 1920x1080px Widescreen (16:10):
Wallpapers 2: 1600x1200px Fullscreen (4:3):
The Challenge's Banners
First banner proposal (Dark and Light versions in Medium Rectangle size (300x250px):
SVG Source files on Wiki: Dark version | Light Version. I think you need the fonts Purisa and Droid Sans already installed to open the SVG files correctly.
The idea is keep it simply, attractive and nice. The button Donate is not a button actually, but if we can use HTML and CSS to implement these banners, they could be... The banners was not commented by Design Team yet, so you should take a look on the mail listing before use them.
I'll do more proposals, since more banners in different formats and goals are highly needed with some urgency. There are 29 days left to The Challenge's end, so please, donate!
My Research: Communicability Analysis on User Tests
I've been part of a research group in my University by approximately one year with 3 colleagues. Our two teachers, Dr. Cristiane Nobre and Elisa Tuller are usability's esperts and both they drove our research to a high level of quality and results.
Our main work was study and analyze the previous version of our University's website and propose a new version, correcting usabilities faults and asking the community feedback. We was too new in this task, so our teachers followed our research closer and helped it a lot. The first half of 2010 was filled by online surveys creation, user tests recording and many interviews with representative people from UFSJ. Both teachers and students helped to create the new website with their feedback. The second one, filled by many hard work to analysis all these material and conclude the research. I'm not sure if our work will be presented in a paper, since it's so much Case's study, but I'm hope keep learning so much as before.
Now we are learning how to apply the Communicability Evaluation Method on user tests (it's a kind of Semiotic Inspection). Basically, we need to watch our past video recordings and identify all communicability's ruptures between Designer's intent and final User's perception.
By sample, there's a menu on a web page, and the user should click into this menu to complete a determined task. By some reason, the user don't click in this menu. It usually indicates a rupture in user understanding of our system, and the Designer task is find the reason of this rupture and tag this moment appropriately in the recording. The tags we can use are generally phrases said by the users in his mind, thoughts actually. They can be "Where is it?", "What is it?", "Why is it not working?", "No, thanks." (the user choose by a different solution, but the Designer preferred one), and many others.
We are using Morae software from TechSmith, an proprietary solution. It take a while to analyze all recordings, most because we're absorbing the concepts yet. But the actual difficult part of this process is to adapt the tags to web context. They was initially done for software context and it's clear to me how they not fit very well to the user's interaction on web pages.
We are thinking about the possibly to create new tags to this context and looking for related papers . If you know something (any interesting paper, maybe) that could be helpful to us, please let me know.
Other projects
I think some projects - that I've been part - are in a break. They are the Field Dialog, the Presentation Templates to Impress and the Mimetype Icons for the tool bar on LibreOffice's UI. Also Benjamin Horst invited me to join in a project related to a tabbed interface and a dashboard concept to LibreOffice. I have no idea when I'll be able to resume these projects, but I wish do it soon. :)
LibreOffice wallpapers
Thanks to feedback by the LibreOffice's Marketing Team, I improved my first wallpapers with the LibreOffice's Initial Mimetype Icons, normalizing the logo and increasing their size. Many thanks to they! Finally, I skipped from GIMP's post-production and re-edited everything in Blender's Node Compositor.
Wallpapers 1: 1920x1080px Widescreen (16:10):
Wallpapers 1: 1600x1200px Fullscreen (4:3):
Wallpapers 2: 1920x1080px Widescreen (16:10):
Wallpapers 2: 1600x1200px Fullscreen (4:3):
The Challenge's Banners
The LibreOffice Challenge: EUR 50 000 for the Foundation. Donate now for an effective, efficient, transparent, and inclusive community!This a actual challenge and I'm sure it's achieve success! :) But the Website Mail Listing guys are needing some help with banners to promote The Challenge through the web, so these are my 2 cents for now:
First banner proposal (Dark and Light versions in Medium Rectangle size (300x250px):
SVG Source files on Wiki: Dark version | Light Version. I think you need the fonts Purisa and Droid Sans already installed to open the SVG files correctly.
The idea is keep it simply, attractive and nice. The button Donate is not a button actually, but if we can use HTML and CSS to implement these banners, they could be... The banners was not commented by Design Team yet, so you should take a look on the mail listing before use them.
I'll do more proposals, since more banners in different formats and goals are highly needed with some urgency. There are 29 days left to The Challenge's end, so please, donate!
My Research: Communicability Analysis on User Tests
I've been part of a research group in my University by approximately one year with 3 colleagues. Our two teachers, Dr. Cristiane Nobre and Elisa Tuller are usability's esperts and both they drove our research to a high level of quality and results.
Our main work was study and analyze the previous version of our University's website and propose a new version, correcting usabilities faults and asking the community feedback. We was too new in this task, so our teachers followed our research closer and helped it a lot. The first half of 2010 was filled by online surveys creation, user tests recording and many interviews with representative people from UFSJ. Both teachers and students helped to create the new website with their feedback. The second one, filled by many hard work to analysis all these material and conclude the research. I'm not sure if our work will be presented in a paper, since it's so much Case's study, but I'm hope keep learning so much as before.
Now we are learning how to apply the Communicability Evaluation Method on user tests (it's a kind of Semiotic Inspection). Basically, we need to watch our past video recordings and identify all communicability's ruptures between Designer's intent and final User's perception.
By sample, there's a menu on a web page, and the user should click into this menu to complete a determined task. By some reason, the user don't click in this menu. It usually indicates a rupture in user understanding of our system, and the Designer task is find the reason of this rupture and tag this moment appropriately in the recording. The tags we can use are generally phrases said by the users in his mind, thoughts actually. They can be "Where is it?", "What is it?", "Why is it not working?", "No, thanks." (the user choose by a different solution, but the Designer preferred one), and many others.
We are using Morae software from TechSmith, an proprietary solution. It take a while to analyze all recordings, most because we're absorbing the concepts yet. But the actual difficult part of this process is to adapt the tags to web context. They was initially done for software context and it's clear to me how they not fit very well to the user's interaction on web pages.
We are thinking about the possibly to create new tags to this context and looking for related papers . If you know something (any interesting paper, maybe) that could be helpful to us, please let me know.
Other projects
I think some projects - that I've been part - are in a break. They are the Field Dialog, the Presentation Templates to Impress and the Mimetype Icons for the tool bar on LibreOffice's UI. Also Benjamin Horst invited me to join in a project related to a tabbed interface and a dashboard concept to LibreOffice. I have no idea when I'll be able to resume these projects, but I wish do it soon. :)
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