Video clips from the test
From the recordings of the usability test, a video compilation was made for the seminar where UKKOSS 4 gave a presentation about their usability test. (more)The test report
Here is the translated test report of the usability test on Blender: (more)Test tasks
Here are the tasks for the test. We couldn't test the whole Blender as it is quite large and there were limits to the time we could use for the tests. That's why we had to restrict the test to only certain parts of Blender and we ended up in basic UI handling and the Node Editor. (more)The test report (Finnish version)
We are now translating the test report from Finnish to English, but because there was some interest in the #blender.fi irc-channel, we decided to publish the original report as a preview:
UKKOSS 4 group's test report in Finnish (more)
Test arrangements
In this post we’ll tell you more about the arrangements of usability testing. We’ll tell about the lab setting and the workflow of the test. (more)About finding test users
Because Blender is a tool for professional 3D artists we decided that our test users must be experts in 3D modelling too. The hardest part of finding sufficient test users was that they shouldn’t have prior experience on Blender. (more)People behind the project
We thought to tell a little more about ourselfs. Here is a description of our team in a profile form. (more)History of UKKOSS research
As you might have deduced, this is not a stand alone project but part of a larger research. Two previous projects have also tried to find out how to best introduce usability help into open source projects. (more) 01 Apr - 30 Apr 200901 May - 31 May 2009