2014-03-22 15:57 GMT+01:00 Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...>:
Here are the results from the User UX testing yesterday. All testers/users were new to inkscape or had only used it briefly before.
UX Problems Found:
- 3 Users thought they could select a group by clicking on the
whilespace between objects
I'm not sure we can do anything about this, since this would get really cumbersome with groups that contain a few widely separated objects. (By the way, Alt+click to select under doesn't seem to work for me - do others also encounter this?)
- View > Grid was found to be confusing, Perhaps change to "Show Grid"
or "Grid Guides" or some such.
This looks like it could be fixed with a simple string change. PS while checking this, I noticed that "Snap" is under "View", which doesn't seem right.
- All users found Rows and Columns dialog hard or impossible to find.
Once found, it was easy to use. All expected to find it under Align and Distribute dialog.
Probably these two dialogs can be merged, e.g. the rows and columns stuff could be an expander in the align & distribute dialog.
- 1 user thought Export Bitmap would make a PDF and didn't expect PDF
in "Save As"
I suggest no changes in this case. PDF is definitely not a bitmap.
- 1 user had screen size issues where many elements were off the sides
of the screen.
Does this refer to UI elements or drawing elements?
- New users found it hard to locate rotate handles, slow clicking not
expected. Some would use the transform dialog instead.
I think this action should stay, since it is convenient and a core feature since almost forever, but there could be an additional way to switch between the modes which is more discoverable (e.g. right click? toolbar button?). The message in the status box does say that clicking will toggle between scale and rotate handles, but maybe it's not visible enough.
- All users could not find document size settings. Expecting Edit >
Crop to Selection or similar function.
Adding this to the menu sounds like a good idea. Also, the document properties dialog should allow you to adjust the page size using draggable handles.
Regards, Krzysztof