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 * View > Grid was found to be confusing, Perhaps change to "Show Grid" or "Grid Guides" or some such. * 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. * 1 user thought Export Bitmap would make a PDF and didn't expect PDF in "Save As" * 1 user had screen size issues where many elements were off the sides of the screen. * New users found it hard to locate rotate handles, slow clicking not expected. Some would use the transform dialog instead. * All users could not find document size settings. Expecting Edit > Crop to Selection or similar function.
Bugs found:
* 3D boxes don't align at all.
Thanks to everyone who took part and helped test Inkscape. I think for v1.0 of inkscape we should focus on clearing up a lot of these user interface issues we have.
More testing would be good too.
Best Regards, Martin Owens