Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ux (89 mails)

["Benji Weber" <b.weber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/16/07, Jyllian Marie Thibodeau <jthibodeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was talking with Brian about which information we'd like to collect
> from the usability tests, and anticipating the various personas that
> might come to take the test (and, eventually, possibly use the
> installer).
>
> One such persona involves a low-to-medium experience user who is
> typically a Windows user.  This person may or may not have installed
> Windows or Linux in the past, but is most likely to depend on the
> system guessing sane defaults, and may hit a usability snag if they
> don't.

There's also this travesty of a screen.
http://news.softpedia.com/images/reviews/large/opensuseinstallguide-large_013.png
Which breaks the "keep clicking next" path of least resistance.
Instead the user is forced to make the choice of desktop environment
which he/she will probably not understand, and the descriptions do not
help. One of the examples of how stupid Novell politics have removed
the sensible KDE default and ease of install that SUSE used to have.
</rant>

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Benjamin Weber
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