Usabilityresources

openSUSE Usability Knowledge Base

Resources to help making our OS effective, efficient and satisfying

News and Notes

• 2006-05-03: This part of the openSUSE wiki is just under way and still some links will be broken.
• 2006-05-03: At the moment we have a German-English language mixture. If possible, we will translate the German texts step by step.
• 2006-05-03: The usability course will take place in the next winter term (2006/2007).

Why this one?

• The primary intention is to prepare a knowledge page for all developers with selected information and course material for self-educated learning in the field of usability. The goal is not to provide Yet another Usability Site where developers and usability specialists can find the 5th collection of links leading to the same resources in the web.
• The secondary aim is to provide a resource and playground for the advanced hands-on Usability Seminar at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg were studends of computer science and psychology get together. The seminar usually will take place in the winter term.

Topics

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• Introduction into "Usability"
• Prototypes
• Norms and Stylesguides
• General Principles in Visual Design
• Evaluation Methods I: Expert reviews, questionaires, checklists, ...
• Evaluation Methods II: Usability Lab
• Help, Online Support and Wizards
• Apple/Gnome/Windows/KDE - Differences in GUI?
• Usability Engineering
• Web Design
• Accessibility
• Socio-technical System Design
• Shell-Power!

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Projects

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• Semantic Differential
• Workshop-05-06's hall of shame

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General

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• Introduction
• Online Resources
• Books
• Conferences
• Usability Professional Associations

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Miscellaneus

• The wikipedia list of operating systems

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Usability Course Organization

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• Seminarplan

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Siegfried B. Olschner // sigi 2006-01-13