User Experience Planet

Thinning out process for the existing OOo user interface has started. Focus for OOo 3.3 will be on Impress. Please find the October status update presentation for Project Renaissance at the OOo Wiki (1 MB).

Feedback welcome.

Best regards,

The OpenOffice.org conference will start in a few days. Two cappuccino and one espresso, per favore :-)

The OOo User Experience Team will give two presentations and two workshops:

Wednesday: (11-04)

• 12:15 PM: Project Renaissance - Designing a new user interface for OpenOffice.org; Building; Palazzo dei Sette; Room: Sette 3; (Andreas Bartel, Frank Loehmann)

Thursday:  (11-05)

• 11:15 AM: Getting usagetracking data, technical and security aspects and a look in the future how to provide the data; Building: Palazzo dei Sette; Room: Sette 1; (Frank Mau, Frank Loehmann)
• 04:15 PM: UX Workshop I - The role and the methods of user experience in product design
  Building: Palazzo dei Sette, Room: Sette 1 (Andreas Bartel)
  
• 05:15 PM: Workshop II - User Experience Done "Live" Based on Expertise and Usage Data
  Building: Palazzo dei Sette, Room: Sette 1 (Christoph Noack, Frank Loehmann)
  

We are calling for topics for the second UX workshop. So everybody who wants to attend please give us input what you want us to discuss at the workshop. Up till now, nobody officially responded to our annoucement earlier this week.

We'll see us at the OpenOffice.org conference.

Best regards,

OpenOffice.org User Experience Team

Project Renaissance has created a special spreadsheet with the Impress User Feedback Data.

This spreadsheet is easier to use than the full version (no filtering needed) and will be used for the thinning out process of the Impress user interface.

The spreadsheet provides data for:

• Shortcuts
• Menu Entries
• Toolbars
  
• and new: A list of not called events

• Undo
• Text
• Position and Size dialog
  

Best regards,

The Renaissance Team

The Renaissance Project has started the announced thinning out process of the Impress user interface.

The goal of this process is to improve the most common interactions for Impress 3.3. This process is based on data from the User Feedback Program, customer interviews, surveys and usability issues.

The following visualization of the most clicked icons on toolbars of Impress 3.1 is a good point to start this process. A larger version of this click map can be found on the User Feedback Program home page.

More details, visualizations and reports will follow soon. 

Best regards,

The Project Renaissance Team

The user feedback program is still running and provides tons of data about what features are being used by our users in real live. This usage data is used within Project Renaissance.

The updated version from October now consists of five times more samples than the last version.  The spreadsheet provides separated data for Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and a summary for all applications.

A visualization of this data for the Impress user interface and additional reports will follow later this week.

Best regards