Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Last saturday Tim Pritlove interviewed Peter Sikking and me for Chaosradio Express, a podcast about technology and society.
In an easy-flowing disucssion, we talked about the differences between Peter's and my field of work - interaction architecture and usablity - and how we complement each other. We brought up various examples ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
I spent the last weeks to summarise the results of the Season of Usability on a website and published it today:
First Season of Usability finished successfully!
Season of Usability is a series of sponsored student projects to encourage students of usability, user-interface design, and interaction design to get involved with Freee/Libre/Open-Source ...
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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
Today Olaf published the second checklist in the scope of the HIG Hunting Session - it is about Text and Fonts.
Just like last week, we ask users of the KDE 4 Alpha release to review applications along checklists and report infringements in the bug tracking system. More details in the ...
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Yesterday, the usability review cycle for KDE4 started. As the HCI working group is poor on man-power, we started an experiment to include the community into the search for obvious infringements of the KDE Human Interface Guidelines: The HIG Hunting Season.
If you recently had a look at the HIG's start ...
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
As the result of a long discussion on kde-core-devel, I summarised the suggested application and system shortcuts for KDE4:
Standard Keyboard Shortcuts
About Shortcuts and Accelerators
[The table isn't formatted yet - are there volunteers to make it look like these ones? I really hate tables in MediaWiki...]
The suggested shortcuts are a summary ...
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