http://www.gnome.asia/conference/activities/student-training

1. User Experience
Design in GNOME
Student Training
Allan Caeg
UX Designer and Product Manager
@AllanCaeg

2. Sections of This
Presentation
UX 101
The GNOME Design Team
Getting Started with Designing

3. UX 101

4. What's software for?

5. Usability

6. Usability
The effectiveness, efficiency and
satisfaction with which specified users
achieve specified goals in particular
environments.
From http://www.w3.org/2002/Talks/0104-usabilityprocess/slide3-0.html

7. Usability
effectiveness: the accuracy and completeness with
which specified users can achieve specified goals in
particular environments
efficiency: the resources expended in relation to
the accuracy and completeness of goals achieved
satisfaction: the comfort and acceptability of the
work system to its users and other people affected
by its use
From http://www.w3.org/2002/Talks/0104-usabilityprocess/slide3-0.html

8. ISO Definition of User
Experience
a person's perceptions and
responses that result from the use
or anticipated use of a product,
system or service

9. UX Honeycomb
From http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000029.php

10. Elements of User Experience
From http://www.jjg.net/ia/

11. UX Deliverables

12. Wireframes
Lo-fi mockups
Fast and easy
Easy to iterate

13. Wireframes

14. User Flows
Shows steps a user will take to achive goal

15. User Flow
for
checking
email

16. Many more…
User research
Usability tests
Site Maps

17. The GNOME Design
Team

18. User Experience
Advocates
People serving as
User Centered
Design advocates
for different
projects concerning
GNOME
From https://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/UXAdvocates

19. Human Interface
Guidelines
Tells how to create
applications that look right,
behave properly, and fit
into the GNOME user
interface as a whole
For interface designers,
graphic artists and
software developers
Contains specifics and the
high level philosophy behind
From http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/intro.html.en

20. Communication
Channels
Mailing list:
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usabil
ity
IRC: #usability and #gnome-design on
irc.gimp.org

21. Getting Started with
Designing

22. Start simple, but make it
sustainable

23. Keep users in mind
The technology is for the user
Every user is different
Consider accessibility

24. Explore online resources
Follow blogs
• http://useit.com
• http://adaptivepath.com/ideas
• http://azarask.in/
Join communities
• http://ux.stackexchange.com/
• http://www.ixda.org

25. When you feel ready,
feel free to drop by
GNOME Usability
Mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
IRC: #usability and #gnome-design on irc.gimp.org

26. Keep in mind that
software should help
improve the quality of
people's lives

27. Thank you!
Allan Caeg
UX Designer and Product Manager
@AllanCaeg