[imp] Fwd: IMP usability

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

I'm going to answer this, but I doubt she'd mind more data, so if anyone
else has done any studies, etc...

----- Forwarded message from thomure@smithsonite.rice.edu -----
    Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 22:20:01 -0600 (CST)
    From: Tiffany Thomure <thomure@smithsonite.rice.edu>
Reply-To: Tiffany Thomure <thomure@smithsonite.rice.edu>
 Subject: IMP usability
      To: chuck@horde.org

My name is Tiffany Thomure and I'm a senior at Rice University in Houston, 
Texas.  My friend Mike Hardy gave me your name to contact at the Horde 
project.  I'm in a HCI class at Rice, and for my semester project I am 
conducting a usability test of both Twig and IMP.  I have a few questions 
for you regarding the design of IMP.  If you've got some time to answer 
these, I'd really appreciate it.  My questions are:

1) Who was chiefly responsible for creating the UI for the IMP?  Was it 
one person or a group of people?

2) Did the designers perform any usability research before creating the 
interface?

3) Why did they choose to make it so graphically rich?

4) After the UI was developed, has there been any ongoing research into 
its usability in the field?  In particular, have you done any usability 
tests, cognitive walkthroughs, or a heuristic evaluation?

5) Were there any usability problems that you encountered, or any drastic 
changes made to the user interface?  What was the reasons behind any large 
changes that were made?

Thank you for your time,
Tiffany Thomure



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-chuck

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