On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:41:13PM -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
a pony, I'm sure the gnome usability team would love a
workhorse,
especially one they didn't have to pay.
People have been studying it and quite hard. There is a big difference in
most technologies between the real techies, the early adopters and the majority
They want different things, they behave in different ways and they have very
different priorities. Borrow a copy of "Inside the tornado" (Moore, G. 1995)
and read about "crossing the chasm"
shopping malls collecting data from normal people. I suggest you
get
in touch with the gnome usability team and co-ordinate your efforts
before you start hitting the street with your usability lab.
That assumes the people your product must appeal to are those who use it, and
them alone, its not usually so simple