Quick follow-up on my last post about some ideas for a GNOME control center refresh.
Kristin and Jenya are running a usability study on three control center designs in the Sun labs this week (current GNOME control center as a baseline, plus two of their alternative designs). There will be 10 participants over three days, a mixture of “developers, technical end users, and technical students”.
We will of course share the results as soon as we have any to share 🙂
I like the “New Menu Demo” approach in the launcher.swf:
http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/ControlCenter/Sun/FrontPage?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=launcher.swf
All the other options found at the bottom (Rollover Demo, Rollover Demo 2… etc) aren’t very nice/easy to use.