LinuxOfficeProgrammer Control Panel: Closed

Initial Home Page

- "not really inviting". mentioned sykpe home page as a nicer example.
"it doesn't advertise the product", "doesn't convince me to go through the sign up process"
suggested a "walkthrough - popup - (animation) showing what you can do."
moved his mouse around some time before clicking the login link.

Login / Register

- liked Open ID option (but didn't use it)
- profile name says "no spaces please" *this should only appear if spaces are used* (otherwise its like reporting an error when there is none)

Welcome page

need to check text (wrong plural) on this page.

Home Page.

Liked dash board. (movable Apps etc) He wanted to be able to collapse the Apps (make them smaller width). And place two side by side. i.e. J thought that the apps took up too much room. He also thought the micro evis box should be an App so he could move it like the other Apps.

(text bug: Active Nodes word is used instead of Profiles)

Timeline

J wanted to write a comment on the timeline (i.e. comment would fold out in place like F.B.) rather than going to the read evis page.

said: Evis could be half width. Asked about twitter integration even though he doesn' have a twitter account (we should consider a CC link)

Micro Evis

Couldn't find "full text editor" i.e. J didn't find Write Evis link. Suggested the full text options could appear when you click in the field.

Apps

Wanted to have a "Add" link, next to Preview (i.e. so don't have to preview in order to add). Also thought that the preview was taking too much space.

Scary Message about App permissions.

(It also seems that there is a mis match of permissions required the the usage of the app. I.e. why doesn't You Tube Box need read access to my Account just for searching Tube Tube?)

After adding app, need a link to go back to the dashboard.

(You tube box was broken)

Show waiting icon when refreshing.

Noted that he couldn't delete some Apps.

Logout

After logout, went back to Login / Register. confusing.

Other

Wanted a "more widgets" link.

"How can I follow someone?"

Liked the Authors panel (wanted to see names of authors)

Suggested Stop Following instead of UnFollow

Key short cut for "Micro Evis Post" doesn't not work.

How to create a Profile?

Filters

Wanted to have a look at filters but I said it wasn't really ready (short of time too)

windows

on the balcony at home

big social network user

We mainly tested the registration and edit profile pages:

• Registration went OK. (I had invited him to be an author in a profile)
• Author Activation page looks a bit naff (design)
• Chatter switch dropdown not working in IE
• Made changes to profile but forgot to save (can we prompt for that somehow before leaving page?)
• HEX colour editor made no sense to him (colour picker has already been added by deepak)
• Troubles with edit profile (problem with linebreak in feeds but could have been other problems too)
• Troubles with edit profile error messages (proxy object non translated string)

I've added tickets for most of that stuff.

guess we should try to use trackbacks whenever we link to another blog or similar #spread #the #word #eviscape

macos

computer user level: high

Location: in our office

Situation: nice and quiet

Daniel didn't know anything about eviscape.

-> Typing the eviscape URL

He mistyped URL

-> Register

Got confused between the fields. i.e. was the label for the field above or below? * We need to ad some space between each field and label.

-> Post Register spash page

Too much text. - Or rather text not empashised as to what is important. * We need to move the bold bit about email activation to the top.

-> Activation Email

Very good. He clicked it and it worked!

-> Browsed Profile "SimonRedfern"

"Still not clear" (what eviscape is)

-> Home

He wanted a more info page
Suggested we use big text like Tumblr. Also reffered to aka-aki for design and intro.

Didn't like drop down to select link/chatter etc. Said it was an extra click. * Maybe we could have a mac style doc icons that get bigger as you scroll over. (Picture, Text, Sound etc)

-> Follow options empty (bug) * We need to remove this null option when only one profile.

-> Write Evis

-> Back Button

-> Home

-> clicked on Sustainable Design Profile

He noticed that the "spacing" of the text was not consistent (it may be in the data but we could still clean it up if lines of text at end). Also wasn't sure evis were "different" i.e. some evis are short and some long. (I think we need to work on making text larger if its short length text, removing duplicate subject etc)

He wanted to put comments on a photo itself (rather than scrolling down and saying "the third photo from the top is cool".)

-> More browsing around Profiles

-> Follow

(a bit slow)

-> Settings

Wanted to set a setting for a Profile so went to Profiles in Member settings but then back to the Profile * We need to add an edit link to the Profile list.

-> Micro Evis Link

Error (then) couldn't post. * Check this with and without error.

"Can I look for people where I'm from?" * Need to add location field to Member

-> Wanted to Contact iapain

Contact button was not there (due to anti spam bug) * Fix

Daniel was kind of done at this point. He wanted to see pictures / calendar. Asked what was different about eviscape? I said you could use different Profiles for different subjects etc:

-> Create new Profile

Style missing (should have popped up) * Make pop up

Permalink was confusing (again!) * Can we can remove the permalink from the create node and just let people edit it? 

Was interested / confused about how stuff got into his inbox! On Profile view he wanted to see his Inbox on top. ("I want to see what others have written" - * We still need to consider this perhaps with a member level setting.

"How to find people?" I suggested search. He suggested Profiles should go at top of results. Also when he scrolled he missed the Profiles because they look very similar to the Evis. * should make them look different somehow. (But I don't think he would have thought of searching for people.) * So probably we need a "Find People" page.

-> Inviting me to his second Profile.

Clicked the Invite Authors link no problem
"I don't know your profile" I prompted: said "just type" He found lots of me! * We should reduce the number of Profiles we return that match a name (right now i guess we are returning all profiles I created but we should limit that to primary profile?)

Clicked Invite - but it was not obvious that it had succeeded! (he was about to click the invite button again.) *Need to make the success message bigger / brighter. - Or it should close and reload the calling page.

-> Personalised home page

Found magnetic poetry! But when he clicked Add To Home nothing happened. * Something should happen!

- Trying to find Profile Settings again (we need that edit link in list of Profiles)
* We should take strict out of Advanced and make Advanced link bigger. (he was maybe going to confuse strict with hiding member full name)

Found fresh cats widget. Even explored the source code for it!

- Need impresum * True We should add this!

End of Test.

Overall it was a good test. Many features were used.
Notable exceptions:

• Drop down for Profile options.(didn't see it)
• Write Evis (he hit the back button when he saw it)

Thanks very much@kenzedeen !


 

Soundscapes and Melodies ::
31/07/2009 at Schokoladen, Ackerstrasse 169, 10115 Berlin

Curious on the target audience for Eviscape... For anyone or everyone? For techies? For corporates/companies?

When I start work, maybe we can all get together so I can hear everyones thoughts on Eviscape redesign? In mean time, I'll get to know it...

Trying to make the navigation more consistent. So all Profile pages should now have Quick Links including a Go menu and Authors.