On 02/25/2015 05:35 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
HI all,
I just noticed the new "Do Geometric constructions" tool in the inkscape trunk, and this got me thinking a few things about this new tool (and inkscape usability and UX in general).
It's by no means new :) It's probably 6 years old or so.
First up, this tool provides (among other things) two new ways to create a circle: "a circle by three points", and a "circle by center and radius". These are pretty neat additions, but my first question when I saw this was why is this in a completely separate tool, not as a sub-tool of the circle tool.
Because the idea was the create a set of CAD-flavored features that are not limited to drawing circles, and that idea was, in fact, implemented :)
but from a user point of view, if you want to create a circle, wouldn't you expect these options in the circle tool?
What would you do about drawing bisectors and suchlike? :)
Yeah, that is something that would need to be considered too. What I would love to get from this discussion is some sort of loose consensus on how new features and tools should be integrated into the interface, with a focus on making things behave similarly to the tools we already have.
All the new features being added are awesome and useful, but having them behave in all different ways does make it less useful for artists, IMHO.
--ryanlerch
I know this is kind of out of the blue, but i have been thinking a lot lately about some of the inconsistencies like this in the inkscape interface, and would love to try to help contribute to fixes / be involved with helping with the usability of new tools we create. Has there ever been anyone involved with doing usablity reviews / testing of this sort? (doctormon, i know you did some last year :) ) I know of plenty of UX people that use Inkscape that would probably be keen in contributing in this area.
It's definitely something that needs tons of work :)
Alex
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