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I'm a teacher; 16/17 year olds will hop between interfaces with very different logics/metaphors with ease. For example, a desktop PC with Win7, an iPhone and an

I'm a teacher; 16/17 year olds will hop between interfaces with very different logics/metaphors with ease. For example, a desktop PC with Win7, an iPhone and an Android tablet. I might try putting a recent Gnome on my test laptop and seeing what they can do with it as we go into revision for exams. As I use old X series Thinkpads, I'll need to bring a mouse. The trackpad is always the thing people find hardest! Does anyone have references to any user testing of Gnome Shell as it was quite a fresh approach when it came out?

natermer 10y ago
Large scale usability tests are pretty rare for open source software. Gnome is one of the few exceptions having some testing paid for by Sun Microsystems for Gnome 1 and then again by Novell for Gnome 2 around 2005. From this they developed the Gnome HIG (human interface guidelines), which was used extensively in Gnome 2 and formed the basis for much of what they wanted to accomplish in Gnome 3. Since the Novell test they had some ad-hoc usability testing, but nothing large or ran by professional usability testers. Example: https://renatagegaj.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/gnome-usability-test-results-part-1/ https://renatagegaj.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/gnome-usability...