Usability Group for Collaboration Platform

Need for "Shout Out" Functionality

Saori Fotenos — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:04:30 -0500

I would like a mechanism to send mini requests/questions to fellows that is by default private to a group and that has a short expiration. I think of it as a hybrid between IM, forum and mailing list. I think Drupal has it already:

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Should all public posts go on the RDVP frontpage?

Saori Fotenos — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:26:01 -0500

Currently, every public blog post appears on the rdvp.org frontpage. Does that make sense?

I've been talking to some people about this and wanted to get others' feedback on the idea that you would like your posts to become public (that is, other people should be able to view them without logging in) but that you would not necessarily want them to show up on the RDVP public homepage. My specific example is detailed project progress that our guidelines had suggested we leave off the frontpage. There are pros and cons to adding an option such as this and I list some below. I hope people have opinions about this and that we can work out a decision using this forum (as Vi has recently asked us to do).

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Usability Workshop: Tuesday --> Only 30 minutes

Laura Cuozzo — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:51:10 -0500

Event Info:

30-minute presentation on user-centered design practices. Starts at 3:30 Tuesday, November 15th in Cordura 104.

Will include:
-- What is user-centered design?
-- Contextual Inquiry
-- Paper prototypes
-- Usability Testing
Laura

Human Computer Interaction / User Experience / Usability Group

A little something for the usability group

Carlos Miranda Levy — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:30:15 -0500

Hey guys, check this out...

The perfect Thanksgiving (or Christmas) gift...

click here: got usability?

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Upcoming events should be marked with date and not days left

Erik Sundelof — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:22:34 -0500

To ensure that there is no confusion when an event really is, the box with upcoming events on the startpage of the collaboration framework what is now marked with days left, instead should be marked b

Process group

Blog Guidelines

Laura Cuozzo — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:42:44 -0500

At today's meeting, we distributed the attached guidelines for blogging.

This is meant as recommendations on issues that were raised at Asilomar.

We would like to spend some time at the next group meeting on Monday to discuss these and have any constructive debate leading to guidelines we all agree with.

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Results of Usability Suvey

Laura Cuozzo — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:23:39 -0500

Here's the summary of responses from DV fellows in response to a survey about this collaboration space. (All the responses are in the attached spreadsheet. Click on "results of the survey" below to see them.):

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How testing with users can cause us to talk more about things we're sick of talking about.

Laura Cuozzo — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 02:59:26 -0400

Here is an excerpt of an interview with David Liddle, whose team developed the Star system in 1978 here in Palo Alto,. The Star system was the forerunner of today's graphical user interfaces (GUIs) like the Mac and Windows.

Human Computer Interaction / User Experience / Usability Group

Contextual Inquiry: One Usability Method

Laura Cuozzo — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 02:35:13 -0400

In the Intro to HCI (Human Computer Interaction) class I am auditing with Prof. Terry Winograd, project teams have been assigned to perform a "contextual inquiry."

Contextual inquiry involves going out to the field to interview your target users. For those of you who have access to their target users or have people on their team in the field, this is a very good method of starting to gather information with which to build your project requirements.

Human Computer Interaction / User Experience / Usability Group

Here are the notes from our fellownies site discussion at Asilomar

Laura Cuozzo — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:19:30 -0400

Hi folks,

Below in the attachment are the notes from our discussion at Asilomar.

I apologize for the delay--I had six pages of notes to try to tidy up. I know I missed some things people said or attributed comments to the wrong person.

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Ways to make it easier to track & prioritze change requests (and not drive Carlos nuts.)

Laura Cuozzo — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:23:41 -0400

Hi All,

I saw in Carlos' recent post that he was getting flooded with requests.

I have two suggestions:

1) Maybe people can post all their smaller, one-off suggestions here. And instead of Carlos trying to fix it right away, he could resond with the level of effort it would take him to make these changes on the current platform. He could simplet let us know if it's easy/medium/hard to do.

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2 suggestions for improving group subscriptions and contact

Laura Cuozzo — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:31:04 -0400

Hi,

1) I'd like to suggest a dropdown or another way to "pick" from the list of user names when adding subscribers to groups. I thought I had added Tracy Prentiss to my group this weekend, but I must have entered her username incorrectly because she wasn't added. It would help reduce error if I could pick a name rather than guess or try to remember someone's user name.

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Usability Team Kick-Off

Laura Cuozzo — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:30:53 -0400

Hi,

I'd like to meet by October 18 to talk about next steps for usability and our collaboration tool.

Please send me a name if you want to be involved and what times are best for you.

Thanks.