[imp] Fwd: IMP usability

[Brian Clark]

I think it would be great if Tiffany could provide a copy of her 
semester project (when finished) to the Horde team to post to the 
horde.org website. I am sure that people would be interested in the 
feedback provided by a usability study.  Chuck, maybe you could ask her 
for this when you answer the questions?

Brian!

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

>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
>
>
>
>----- End forwarded message -----
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>
>-chuck
>
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>Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
>"People ask me all the time what it will be like living without otters."
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