Usability
Z Kadu
Kadu Usability Project
Kadu Usability Project Contributors
Introduction
The Kadu Usability Project aims to make the current Kadu interface more user-friendly and easily accessible for users with different levels of proficiency as well as help the development team with the introduction of new features (especially multiple communication protocols) in the best way possible usability-wise.
The main channel of communication within the usability team and with the developers is the kadu-design-feedback mailing list on Google groups.
The Kadu Usability Project documentation will be provided in English to the extent that it's possible, so it would be available to the international userbase and non-Polish developers in the future.
In 04.2009 Kadu has been accepted as a project for the Openusability.org Season of Usability 2009 program
Kadu Usability Project documents
Developers Survey Report - The first step in gathering information about Kadu's existing and intended userbase was to conduct an informal survey with the current developers of the project.
User Survey - A user survey has being conducted (in Polish only) to obtain the demographic data about Kadu's current userbase, taking into account their suggestions and impressions as well as gathering some information that may prove useful while introducing multiple protocols in Kadu. The survey has been active on 1 - 25.08.2008. During that time it has been completed by 5035 participants.
User Survey Report - The full version of the user survey report (in Polish only); an English translation of the key findings section may be eventually provided.
Personas for the Kadu IM - The final step in collecting and analyzing the data about Kadu's current and intended userbase has been visualizing it in the form of personas. Personas TODO
Usability/Workshop - Unrefined documents used in the course of work on the MultiUI interface
Current state of the Kadu Usability Project as of 04.2009 - a document meant for Season of Usability 2009 mentors and students
Current state of the Kadu Usability Project as of 10.2009 - an update of the above, post-Season of Usability
Multi-UI Kadu user interface elements and ideas
Rough mock-ups for windows making up the core MultiUI functionality of Kadu 0.6.6 - pre-Season of Usability
Kadu Season of Usability 2009 Project:
- Prototype Evaluation Overview - An overview of the Kadu prototype evaluation process.
- Heuristic Evaluation Findings - Spreadsheet containing evaluation findings.
- Complete Findings and Recommendations - Heuristic evaluation combined with other pattern observations, plus recommendations based on findings.
- Final mock-ups - Final set of mock-ups for windows making up the core MultiUI functionality of Kadu 0.6.6
Additional windows for Manage Accounts - Delete account / Remind password / Change password/e-mail windows for GG
Forum survey about the history window - in Polish
History window final mock-up - Final mock-up of the redesigned history window
Other documents
Kadu MultiUI Project - provided by the developers in June 2008
Kadu presentation video from the Software Freedom Day 2009 in Wrocław (in Polish) - in the first two parts of the video Piotr Pełzowski is talking about the interface of the upcoming MultiIM Kadu and the work of the Usability Team
Multi-Protocol Messenger Analysis - Multi-Protocol Messenger Analysis performed by Michael A. Oren in the course of SIP Communicator Season of Usability Project
Usability test of Pidgin and Empathy