Gnome 2.6 Usability Review

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @01:44PM from the depends-which-five dept.

TuringTest writes ""The user-centric UI webzine" UserInstinct has published a usability overview of the latest version of the GNOME desktop. While their conclusions and recommendations are not mind-blowing, it includes two interesting appendices with a survey of new users (and their reactions to the system) and a list of common tasks of modern computer users with a commentary on how Gnome performs in each one. Note that usually You Only Need to Test With 5 Users (this report tests 4), you need to test additional users when an interface has several highly distinct groups of users and thus the conclusions in this review should not be taken as definitive."

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Only 4? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-20 13:45 · Score: 4, Funny

Not 5? Well, this is worthless then. Listen to useability/web design guru Nielsen!
Mod me down - but you gotta see this: by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-20 13:58 · Score: 5, Funny

http://www.linspire.com/RunLinspireFlash.php
best part by mnemonic_ · 2004-07-20 14:09 · Score: 4, Funny

'What the hell is "GNOME-gegl2.png"? "That's disgusting!"'
Re:gramer correction by kundor · 2004-07-20 18:04 · Score: 3, Funny

My Acer aspire from 1995 had working voice recognition. Worked like a charm. I could say "Shut down...yes," and it would shut down. I could say "Switch to Descent" and it would start Descent. I could say "Switch to Chess" and it would start Descent. I could say "Switch to CHESS you stupid computer" and it would shut down.