[353] in Athena User Interface
Can we do a quick revision to the Usability drafts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Aug 9 00:51:08 2000
Message-ID: <YtYCAspz00018=HHUp@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 04:51:04 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: beland@MIT.EDU, aui@MIT.EDU
I too have read the Usability drafts.
I wonder if it is possible to incorporate some of Tibbett's feedback in
the document before it gets circulated at tomorrow's meeting.
One teeny nit in directives.txt. Change:
Somputing
to
Computing
I think there are a couple little tweaks that will turn statements where
Beland says "I" into stuff that the whole team can agree upon.
Customer Needs Section: Change:
Here are what I think are the relevant customer needs, demands, and
characteristics, and Information Systems goals. We should look to
these guidelines when deciding whether or not a particular test or
measurement is actually relevant to what results we want to see.
to:
From numerous sources, customer needs, demands and characteristics
have been gathered. The team has tried to exercise judgement and
and proposes these <link>guidelines</link> to help deciding whether
or not a particular test or measurement is actually relevant to what
results we want to see.
Then put at the beginning of directives.txt:
These guidelines represent the Athena User Interface Implementation
Team's assessment of the customer needs, demands, and
characteristics, and Information Systems goals relevant to revising
the Athena User Interface. They are gleaned from sources including:
the Athena User Interface Discovery Report, The Athena Survey taken
in May 2000, an independent survey taken by a class project for
15.279 (Management Communication for Undergraduates), The IS
Strategic Plan, anectdotal evidence supplied by consultants, help
desk staff, and various people who have been called upon
at various times to help users.
http://web.mit.edu/aui/notebook/athena-use.html:
(We need to make sure to print this in color)
The following items should be changed to red (unplanned) until we are
all agreed we are actually doing them: (Or to some new color to indicate
that they are within the scope of AUI but not yet planned.)
- Graphical file manager that understands foreign formats, supports at
least kFTP and preferably SMB/SIFS (via Sharity? smbmount?) and SSH/scp.
- Prominent "help" button in AUI leads users to a help triage screen
- "Hints of the Day" available on login
- New-user login configured with help browser open.
- Ideas for Athena account configuration interface
(http://web.mit.edu/aui/notebook/customize.html)
This page contains a lot of "Beland thinks this is cool" sort of
things, which have all had little input from the rest of AUI.
- Integrated GUI handling of removable media.
- Adapting Helix Code's "bug buddy"
- Integration of help systems into Mozilla (planned by Gnome mainline)
http://web/aui/notebook/usability.html:
These should be move out of "Too unfinished to test", since we may never
do them.
- bug-buddy
- MOTD
- HOTD
- sound
Perhaps we should consider deleting the "Too unfinished to test"
section. No sense in telling people how screwed up we are.
The following outstanding tasks are done, and should be removed from the list:
> - aui locker rebuild
> - Text labeling on icons needs to be committed
