Integrating Usability and Software Engineering
Usability engineering methodology is currently optimised for the needs of commercial software development. Adaptation for Free Software still needs creative work but has great potential. The last two...
View ArticleThe vision of Tine 2.0
The vision for the development of Tine 2.0 defines long term goals. Last week we held an interesting workshop about the goals and usability standards for Tine 2.0. Lars and Nelius visited us in the...
View ArticleSeason of Usability: Projects Opening
The OpenUsability.org – Season of Usability (SoU) has started their call for participation. Interested students with a background in Usability, Interface Design, Interaction Design or related topics...
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Basic Layout Thoughts
We created first drafts of the application layout for Tine 2.0 . We try to keep productivity and ease of use in balance. As we are discussing and rethinking a lot of basic conceptual ideas with Lars...
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Introducing … John Smith
Our primary persona John helps us to always keep the right track in the development of Tine 2.0. I’m new to the usability team of Tine 2.0 and I like to introduce you to our primary persona, which we...
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Secondary Persona No. 1
Personas help to guide the development even though you cannot talk to users directly. This is why we created Susan for the Tine 2.0 project. We would like to forward you this message from our first...
View ArticleWhy we do Usability
Tine 2.0 is developed using best practices of user-centric development. We believe this is the only way to create a stunning product. Imagine a typical production meeting: Product management, Technical...
View ArticleSeason of Usability: 2nd Round of Application
Today nine candidates for the 2nd round of applications for the Season of Usability got chosen. Season of Usability is one of my favourite activities of the year. But it has its downsides as well… This...
View ArticleMore news from our secondary personas
A persona was created for Tine 2.0 that helps us to guide the future development even when we cannot talk to users directly. A new message from another persona just arrived us and we don´t want to hide...
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LinuxTag 2008
User Prompt will be on LinuxTag 2008 together with Tine 2.0. Only one week left to LinuxTag in Berlin (28th to 31st of May)! It is always a great event and I am looking forward to meet all the great...
View ArticleLooking back at LinuxTag 2008
Tine 2.0 technology preview was presented on LinuxTag 2008. On LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin the we were invited by the Tine 2.0 project. So I was at their booth a fair bit of the time, discussing the...
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Filter in Tine
A new concept for filtering data in Tine 2.0 has been developed by us. It makes easy, yet powerful selection of data possible. Last week we had a closer look at the filter settings for Tine 2.0....
View ArticleTesting the Quality of Icons
We announce the availability of an online test of the quality of icons used in TV Browser. Please participate! We just started an online-survey together with the guys from TV-Browser. The question we...
View ArticleIcon Test with TV-Browser
The development of a new test for the quality of icons reaches the final state. In our validation study more than 22000 tests have been conducted. Wow. Today we closed the Icon Test for TV-Browser. And...
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Results of TV-Browser Icon Usability Test
The development of a new testing methodology for icons has matured. The test of TV-Browser icons shows a varying quality of icons. The Icon Usability Test of the TV-Browser icons has been closed for...
View ArticleContribute to make Tine 2.0 the best groupware!
The new groupware Tine 2.0 is ready to be tested. Your feedback is appreciated for further improvement. We have come quite a long way with Tine 2.0 by now -Addressbook, CRM and Tasks are working. We...
View ArticleDisapointed about Adept 3 – first impressions
A personal field report about my impressions of Adept as new package manager for KUbuntu. Unfortunately without happy ending. Today I did an update of my mythbuntu media PC to intrepid. I don’t want to...
View ArticleProductive use of Tine 2.0
Following the ‘eat your own dog food’-rule, our company moved from eGroupware to Tine 2.0 for productive use. A field report with happy ending. Our company has finally moved from eGroupware to Tine 2.0...
View ArticleUsability Test of Tine 2.0
A usability test of Tine 2.0 Adressbook and CRM proves our design concept to be highliy appreciated by the user. Details leave room for improvement though. We were in the lucky situation to conduct a...
View ArticleTine 2.0 Wiki
The introduction to Tine 2.0 we published here has moved to the Tine 2.0 wiki. After Conny asked me to, I moved the introduction of Tine 2.0 Concepts into the Tine 2.0 Wiki today. When I did this I was...
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