Re: Usability Testing for "Maemo Organizer"
 

how about you add in contact management as well, with enough fields for all normal info, ability to add user defined fields, and of course having a picture assigned to it.

Re: Usability Testing for "Maemo Organizer"
 

@ qole, programmers need usability experts, and vice versa. Even if no code is produced from this project some mockups were shared. I don't think these people have bad intend merely some self interest and lazyness (students...).

Given there is a lot of 'organizer applications' for NIT with none being strong on the UI side nor a 'killer app' in this respect Maemo Organizer is a welcome project.

I haven't looked yet. Will do later.

TS, consider to wander through https://wiki.maemo.org/Task:PIM

Re: Usability Testing for "Maemo Organizer"
 

Very nice mock up, the UI is just about the best I have seen in any application for the Tablets. If you need anything like some free web hosting or any help with the program if you do write it let me know I"m glad to help.

Re: Usability Testing for "Maemo Organizer"
 

Sorry if I sounded mean, I was in a bad mood. I feel that the UI is good, BUT a little overambitious. With all those features (Lemme name a few: Map, Attachments, Calender, Themes, Address Book, Sharing, ToDo, etc..) its going to be difficult.

Or, maybe I am just underestimating the power of the tablet, and this app (which I would say is desktop quality, or at least iPhone quality) could really come to the tablet! Good Luck!

Re: Usability Testing for "Maemo Organizer"
 

I don't think they have any intention of actually developing the software. They're just using us as free labour to fill out forms for their Interface & Interaction Design course so their group will get good marks.

Hopefully these guys go on to be gainfully employed and maybe actually produce some nice UIs. But that's not what this is about. The coursework requires the group to do things like Usability Testing, so they're posting here to get us to do it for them.

Re: Usability Testing for "Maemo Organizer"
 

You mean that survey, and those PDF's? Wow, guys, put some effort into it... :p

I thought they said they were "developing a app" not just a UI. My bad...

Anyway, the only thing in the whole setup that was bad was the raster button (grrrr), and the wired twin arrow on the side bar. I could not guess at its function...

Re: Usability Testing for "Maemo Organizer"
 

Yet Another swiss army knife app, huh?

Re: Usability Testing for "Maemo Organizer"
 

Keep in mind usually a good UI designer is not a good programmer. That is why openusability.org is important. It brings together UI designers & usability experts (architects) with developers & programmers (builders).

Judging from the PDFs: Yes.

Still, I value what they shared in this topic. Especially the interactive Flash file.

You can't just build a building by starting building. You need to design it first. Before you program a UI you need to design it.

What they share here is not merely mock-ups. Its the whole interface. This means a programmer doesn't need to bother (much) about designing the interface anymore since she has the 'blueprints' already. In fact, if one of the current 'PIM' developers would look at this topic they might learn a lot, and possibly make their application better, or more Maemo ready.

Because this is precisely the touch-friendly type of application which brings value to the Maemo platform and opens the doors to the general public & masses.

Re: Usability Testing for "Maemo Organizer"
 

To be honest there is good idea, and some less.

I'm the author of mCalendar, and i m currently rewriting it from scratch, with a week view and month view in grid style.

What i don't like is the resume page ... and some other minor things. But as i like listing view ... i don't like the grid view ... :) but it s a personnal point of view.

To be honest with you, you aren't the first giving gui look and feel, idea and many things for making the best PIM app for Maemo. But we lack three things :

- People with good designing skill to make the ui
- Dev to make things working
- Designer and Dev in the same team ... communicating and doing work that can be used by the others :)

When i read this :
'
What they share here is not merely mock-ups. Its the whole interface. This means a programmer doesn't need to bother (much) about designing the interface anymore since she has the 'blueprints' already. In fact, if one of the current 'PIM' developers would look at this topic they might learn a lot, and possibly make their application better, or more Maemo ready.'
I m really borred, are it s seems you consider that dev don't do their best and doens't hear user and do only what they think is good.

A swf isn't an interface, it s just a mockup ... designing the thing in GTK or EFL isn't so easy ! (and doing somethings in efl (like canola) seems to mean no virtual keyboard)

So if someone have good skill to make gtk glade design, or are interested into developping the best pim app in python for Maemo, i invite you to rejoin my personnal project mCalendar. Which is at this moment in dev of the 0.5 version.

Re: Usability Testing for "Maemo Organizer"
 

An other things i don't like ... having all things gathered in one applications, i prefer a task application, notes applications, calendar ...

(ex : mTasks, mNotes, mCalendar ? )