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Welcome to the realm of user experience

Let us join to develop easy, clear, feelgood and clear user interfaces. "Good design is when the interface does not interfere with the user's current task and the user has fun at work."

Discuss with us on opensuse-ux@opensuse.org or on opensuse-artwork@opensuse.org as well.
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Surveys

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Current project

  • openSUSE build service online survey 1 -- under construction
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Completed surveys



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Usability and design projects

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Current project: Follow-Up Usability Study 2008


  • Usability study to test the new design of the openSUSE 11 installation -- all results will be available at the end of September 2008. This study is an add-on to a previous study and we will be able to compare the 10.2 with the 11.
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Intermediate results of ongoing work

  • fate
    Redesign of fate, the client of the SUSE Feature Management database
  • YaST Partitioner
    Redesign of our storage management and partitioning.
  • YaST Printer Module
    We aim to create a more consistent YaST printer configuration module as cutting-edge for other YaST configuration modules.
  • Live Environment
    Design-Ideas for special cases in a Live environment, e.g. a Live-DVD or Live-CD.
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Completed projects

  • openSUSE.org Wiki Frontpage (2008-08-01)
    Illustration how the grouping of dialog elements can help. The picture shows the current and the enhanced wiki frontpage.
  • openSUSE 11 Installation(2008-04-31)
    Almost 45 minutes is quite a long time people need to wait until they can start their openSUSE installation. Let`s see how we can get you to your system quicker, easier and nicer!
  • Kick-Off-Startmenu
    Find out about the usability tests concerning the redesigned KDE start menu for openSUSE 10.2.
  • Boot Loader
    Redesign of the boot loader module in YaST.
  • Software Management SUSE Updater
    Create a small, easy to use tool that provides a convenient way to update your system
  • Taskey
    An easy to use task manager.



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Resources

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Novell User Experience Team Usability Lab

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