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User Experience/Improved Styles

2008-12-30T12:00:56Z

Seijideasign: /* Screenshots */

{{User Experience}}

= Presentation =

Improving the use of styles in Writer is a recurrent subject on the User Experience discussion list. We can identify three main questions:

* How to improve the user experience of the style-related dialogs and User Interface elements, in terms of usability, productivity and enjoyment?
* How can we incite the user to use styles rather than ''hard formating'' (for his own good)?
* How can we enhance the default styles to make Writer looks more appealing and provide a better User Experience?

= Status of this activity =

This activity is independent of other User Experience projects, such as the recent [[Renaissance]]. It could be broken in sub-activities or milestones if required.

Currently, the brainstorming season is on. Please add your ideas, your design proposals and future user interface mockups. In the next step, we will have to rate the requirements and the ideas and select an adequate design solution. Until we get close to development, a roadmap is not necessarily needed.

= The problem =

Styles usage is often misunderstood or found «too much complicated» by end users, who often prefer using the formatting toolbar instead of styles.

The fact is styles are one of the most powerful features a user could use to increase its productivity, but they don't think so, beeing afraid of the feature. One of the most common reply over style is «I know I should use them, I have to think about it, I don't know how its works and I don't have time to look further».

= Some suggestions =

[[User:Seijideasign|Sebastien Just]] has made a list of suggestion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=2636 in this mail]. Feel free to add your own ;).

== The Styles panel ==

* The style panel should be always visible (in my opinion, hard formatting should not exist at all, but that's another discussion…)
* Instead of just showing the name of the style, should display a example of text formatting with the style (like the font selector.)
* Avoid using contextual menus for «Modify» and «New» (contextual menus are always a bad thing when it's the only way to do something), because people are not aware of the way to change the styles. Maybe a «Modify» icon next to the style example should be a good thing.
* The «New style» button should not be only an icon, but icon + text.
* People don't understand the difference between paragraph, character, pages, frame and numbering styles. The buttons are not self-explanatory. We should have buttons with icon+text in the toolbar to explain it. The style list presentation using examples should show help explain the difference too.
* The combobox Style filter is quite difficult to understand while it's an handy tool. Placing it on top of the Frame panel should show people it's importance. At the bottom of the panel, they don't see it at all and don't even try to click on it. Maybe a folder like presentation (like layouts in Photoshop) may be a good replacement for it.

== Default Styles ==

* Maybe the number of default styles provided should both be reduced and provide much more visual differences between them.
* I also think that the default styles should be reworked to provide a more eye-candy look to new documents. It may help in OpenOffice end user adoption to write documents that look really nice even if they don't play with styles or hard formatting. We can see how Apple's iWork productivity suite is fun to use as documents are rendering so «cool» even in the earliest stage of document creation.

== The way we approach formatting ==

=== Page Style Confusion ===

[[User:JaronBaron|Jaron Kuppers]] has said that “OpenOffice.org poorly distinguishes between page styles and selected individual pages. The Format-Page menu option is improperly named, as the user is in fact changing the page style. There really is no way to effectively format the current page without explicitly creating a new page
style and then applying that style to the selected page which is extremely confusing to most users.„ The subject has also been longly discussed in the [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=discuss&by=thread&from=2092177&to=2092177&first=1&count=44 thread about page numbering].

=== See Also ===

Some proposal by [[User:Discoleo|Leonard Mada]] to enhance the selection of styles: [[User_Experience/UI_ideas#Styles_button]]. See also the ''palette'' idea in this [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=2655 post by Clément Pillias] (in section ‘the complex solution’.)

== Screenshots ==

=== Solution : direct style preview ===

[[Image:ImgDirectStylePreview.jpg]]

This solution is provided as an example. It shall not be implemented as-is. For discussion only.

The main problems :
* the user interface changes too much while the user works. Modal interfaces are counter intuitive for end users.
* too much styles leads to complicated selection
* visual difference between styles can lead to confusion even if the styles are named ( below the style preview )

The benefits are :
* no need for direct hard formatting, everything is style usage
* hard formating disappear, letting the user with styles _without telling users_ that the styles are used ( they are commonly afraid of styles )

[[category:User Experience]]

User Experience/Improved Styles

2008-12-30T11:56:01Z

Seijideasign: /* Screenshots */

{{User Experience}}

= Presentation =

Improving the use of styles in Writer is a recurrent subject on the User Experience discussion list. We can identify three main questions:

* How to improve the user experience of the style-related dialogs and User Interface elements, in terms of usability, productivity and enjoyment?
* How can we incite the user to use styles rather than ''hard formating'' (for his own good)?
* How can we enhance the default styles to make Writer looks more appealing and provide a better User Experience?

= Status of this activity =

This activity is independent of other User Experience projects, such as the recent [[Renaissance]]. It could be broken in sub-activities or milestones if required.

Currently, the brainstorming season is on. Please add your ideas, your design proposals and future user interface mockups. In the next step, we will have to rate the requirements and the ideas and select an adequate design solution. Until we get close to development, a roadmap is not necessarily needed.

= The problem =

Styles usage is often misunderstood or found «too much complicated» by end users, who often prefer using the formatting toolbar instead of styles.

The fact is styles are one of the most powerful features a user could use to increase its productivity, but they don't think so, beeing afraid of the feature. One of the most common reply over style is «I know I should use them, I have to think about it, I don't know how its works and I don't have time to look further».

= Some suggestions =

[[User:Seijideasign|Sebastien Just]] has made a list of suggestion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=2636 in this mail]. Feel free to add your own ;).

== The Styles panel ==

* The style panel should be always visible (in my opinion, hard formatting should not exist at all, but that's another discussion…)
* Instead of just showing the name of the style, should display a example of text formatting with the style (like the font selector.)
* Avoid using contextual menus for «Modify» and «New» (contextual menus are always a bad thing when it's the only way to do something), because people are not aware of the way to change the styles. Maybe a «Modify» icon next to the style example should be a good thing.
* The «New style» button should not be only an icon, but icon + text.
* People don't understand the difference between paragraph, character, pages, frame and numbering styles. The buttons are not self-explanatory. We should have buttons with icon+text in the toolbar to explain it. The style list presentation using examples should show help explain the difference too.
* The combobox Style filter is quite difficult to understand while it's an handy tool. Placing it on top of the Frame panel should show people it's importance. At the bottom of the panel, they don't see it at all and don't even try to click on it. Maybe a folder like presentation (like layouts in Photoshop) may be a good replacement for it.

== Default Styles ==

* Maybe the number of default styles provided should both be reduced and provide much more visual differences between them.
* I also think that the default styles should be reworked to provide a more eye-candy look to new documents. It may help in OpenOffice end user adoption to write documents that look really nice even if they don't play with styles or hard formatting. We can see how Apple's iWork productivity suite is fun to use as documents are rendering so «cool» even in the earliest stage of document creation.

== The way we approach formatting ==

=== Page Style Confusion ===

[[User:JaronBaron|Jaron Kuppers]] has said that “OpenOffice.org poorly distinguishes between page styles and selected individual pages. The Format-Page menu option is improperly named, as the user is in fact changing the page style. There really is no way to effectively format the current page without explicitly creating a new page
style and then applying that style to the selected page which is extremely confusing to most users.„ The subject has also been longly discussed in the [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=discuss&by=thread&from=2092177&to=2092177&first=1&count=44 thread about page numbering].

=== See Also ===

Some proposal by [[User:Discoleo|Leonard Mada]] to enhance the selection of styles: [[User_Experience/UI_ideas#Styles_button]]. See also the ''palette'' idea in this [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=2655 post by Clément Pillias] (in section ‘the complex solution’.)

== Screenshots ==

[[Image:ImgDirectStylePreview.jpg]]

[[category:User Experience]]

File:ImgDirectStylePreview.jpg

2008-12-30T11:54:05Z

Seijideasign: Sketch of style selection with direct preview. The solution itself does not match UI visual stability requirements , because too modal, but it can give further ideas.

Sketch of style selection with direct preview.
The solution itself does not match UI visual stability requirements , because too modal, but it can give further ideas.

User Experience/Improved Styles

2008-12-30T11:09:24Z

Seijideasign:

{{User Experience}}

= Presentation =

Improving the use of styles in Writer is a recurrent subject on the User Experience discussion list. We can identify three main questions:

* How to improve the user experience of the style-related dialogs and User Interface elements, in terms of usability, productivity and enjoyment?
* How can we incite the user to use styles rather than ''hard formating'' (for his own good)?
* How can we enhance the default styles to make Writer looks more appealing and provide a better User Experience?

= Status of this activity =

This activity is independent of other User Experience projects, such as the recent [[Renaissance]]. It could be broken in sub-activities or milestones if required.

Currently, the brainstorming season is on. Please add your ideas, your design proposals and future user interface mockups. In the next step, we will have to rate the requirements and the ideas and select an adequate design solution. Until we get close to development, a roadmap is not necessarily needed.

= The problem =

Styles usage is often misunderstood or found «too much complicated» by end users, who often prefer using the formatting toolbar instead of styles.

The fact is styles are one of the most powerful features a user could use to increase its productivity, but they don't think so, beeing afraid of the feature. One of the most common reply over style is «I know I should use them, I have to think about it, I don't know how its works and I don't have time to look further».

= Some suggestions =

[[User:Seijideasign|Sebastien Just]] has made a list of suggestion [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=2636 in this mail]. Feel free to add your own ;).

== The Styles panel ==

* The style panel should be always visible (in my opinion, hard formatting should not exist at all, but that's another discussion…)
* Instead of just showing the name of the style, should display a example of text formatting with the style (like the font selector.)
* Avoid using contextual menus for «Modify» and «New» (contextual menus are always a bad thing when it's the only way to do something), because people are not aware of the way to change the styles. Maybe a «Modify» icon next to the style example should be a good thing.
* The «New style» button should not be only an icon, but icon + text.
* People don't understand the difference between paragraph, character, pages, frame and numbering styles. The buttons are not self-explanatory. We should have buttons with icon+text in the toolbar to explain it. The style list presentation using examples should show help explain the difference too.
* The combobox Style filter is quite difficult to understand while it's an handy tool. Placing it on top of the Frame panel should show people it's importance. At the bottom of the panel, they don't see it at all and don't even try to click on it. Maybe a folder like presentation (like layouts in Photoshop) may be a good replacement for it.

== Default Styles ==

* Maybe the number of default styles provided should both be reduced and provide much more visual differences between them.
* I also think that the default styles should be reworked to provide a more eye-candy look to new documents. It may help in OpenOffice end user adoption to write documents that look really nice even if they don't play with styles or hard formatting. We can see how Apple's iWork productivity suite is fun to use as documents are rendering so «cool» even in the earliest stage of document creation.

== The way we approach formatting ==

=== Page Style Confusion ===

[[User:JaronBaron|Jaron Kuppers]] has said that “OpenOffice.org poorly distinguishes between page styles and selected individual pages. The Format-Page menu option is improperly named, as the user is in fact changing the page style. There really is no way to effectively format the current page without explicitly creating a new page
style and then applying that style to the selected page which is extremely confusing to most users.„ The subject has also been longly discussed in the [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=discuss&by=thread&from=2092177&to=2092177&first=1&count=44 thread about page numbering].

=== See Also ===

Some proposal by [[User:Discoleo|Leonard Mada]] to enhance the selection of styles: [[User_Experience/UI_ideas#Styles_button]]. See also the ''palette'' idea in this [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=2655 post by Clément Pillias] (in section ‘the complex solution’.)

== Screenshots ==

[[Image:User_Experience/Improved_Styles/ImgDirectStylePreview.jpg]]

[[category:User Experience]]

User Experience/Team

2008-11-15T12:09:55Z

Seijideasign: /* Members of the User Experience Team */

{{User Experience}}
__NOTOC__
This is the list of our members who want to share some information about themselves. It extends the [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMemberList Project Member List] which is necessary to administer the [http://ux.openoffice.org/ User Experience project] but does allow to add any personal note. Adding information to this list is suggested at the wiki page [[User Experience/Community/How To Join|How to Join]] the User Experience team.

If you would like to add some information, please allow me to give some remarks:
* The OpenOffice.org login name is the name which does also serve as you email address (''loginname''@openoffice.org).
* The comments may contain your motivation for joining the UX project.
* The special interest states your personal interest or special knowledge for OpenOffice.org UX. It may be interesting for both people outside the team and us to judge what knowledge we can provide and what is missing. Just add:
** OpenOffice.org (the complete OpenOffice.org office suite)
** one or more names of modules (Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base, ...)
** other areas of interest (website, installer, ...)
* Please do not forget to add the date of your data's last update in the format YYYY-MM-DD. (This is an indicator for the up-to-dateness and helps us to directly contact people who may still in this list, but don't have any interest anymore. For us, its far easier than searching in the the Wiki page [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=User_Experience/Team&action=history history]).

''Thank you very much!''

== Members of the User Experience Team ==

{| class="prettytable sortable" border="1"
|-
! Name and User Site
! OpenOffice.org Login Name
! [[IRC Communication|IRC]] Name
! Comments
! OpenOffice.org Special Interest
! Affiliation
! Blog
! Picture
! Last Update

|-
| [[User:Fl|Frank Loehmann]]
| fl
| frankl
| Project lead [http://ux.openoffice.org OOo UX project]
| -
| [http://www.sun.com/openoffice Sun Microsystems, Inc.]
| [http://ux.openoffice.org/blog/ OOo UX Blog]
| [[Image:Picture_FL.jpg]]
| 2008-07-27

|-
| [[User:ChristophNoack|Christoph Noack]]
| christophnoack
| christoph_n
| Project co-lead [http://ux.openoffice.org OOo UX project]
| OpenOffice.org
| -
| [http://ux.openoffice.org/blog/ OOo UX Blog]
| [[Image:User_Christoph_Noack.png]]
| 2008-07-27

|-
| [[Lutz Hoeger]]
| lh
| lutzh
| Senior Product Manager Office Productivity Tools
| -
| [http://www.sun.com/openoffice Sun Microsystems, Inc.]
| [http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/tags/user-experience GullFOSS]
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Mmp|Matthias Müller-Prove]]
| mmp
| mprove
| User Experience Architect<br>(Sun Desktop Virtualization)
| -
| [http://www.sun.com/virtualization Sun Microsystems, Inc.]
| [http://uxooo.blogspot.com/ uxooo.blogspot.com]
| http://www.mprove.de/_media/mprove/mmp.jpg
| 1-Apr-2008

|-
| [[Bettina Haberer]]
| bh
| bettina_h
| User Experience Engineer
| -
| [http://www.sun.com/openoffice Sun Microsystems, Inc.]
| [http://ux.openoffice.org/blog/ OOo UX Blog]
| -
| 2008-07-27

|-
| [[User:Cj|Christian Jansen]]
| cj
| chris-j
| User Experience Engineer
| -
| [http://www.sun.com/openoffice Sun Microsystems, Inc.]
| [http://ux.openoffice.org/blog/ OOo UX Blog]
| -
| 2008-07-27

|-
| [[User:andba|Andreas Bartel]]
| andba
| andba
| User Experience Engineer
| -
| [http://www.sun.com/openoffice Sun Microsystems, Inc.]
| [http://ux.openoffice.org/blog/ OOo UX Blog]
| [[Image:AndreasBartel.jpg]]
| -
| 2008-09-29

|-
| [[User:Gawry|Gustavo Gawry]]
| gawry
| gawry
| User Experience Analyst
| -
| [http://www.sirius.com.br Sirius Interativa (portuguese)]
| [http://www.gawry.com Gawry (portuguese)]
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:cornouws|Cor Nouws]]
| cornouws
| cornouws
| OpenOffice.org trainer <br>OOo extensions developer
| -
| [http://www.nouenoff.nl Nou&Off (Dutch)]
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:wyrfel|André Wyrwa]]
| wyrfel
| wyrfel
| -
| -
| -
| [http://wyrfel.reukauf.com Wyrtual Life]
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:josmar52789|Martin]]
| josmar52789
| -
| Web Developer / System Administrator
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:CaioTiago|Caio Tiago Oliveira]]
| asrail
| asrail
| Computer Scientist / Accessibility lover
| -
| [http://broffice.org BrOffice.org]
| [http://my.opera.com/Asrail Asrail (mainly portuguese)]
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Akashxavier|Akash Xavier]]
| akashxavier
| SingAlong
| Web Developer / User Interface Designer
| -
| [http://cafecamp.com Cafecamp.com]
| [http://jax.blogspot.com Jax's Blog]
| -

|-
| [[User:frank_de_boer|Frank de Boer]]
| Frank_de_boer
| T1
| User Experience Engineer
| -
| -
| -
| http://home.versatel.nl/j.a.deboer/fotoschets.jpg
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:ApOgEE|M. Fauzilkamil Zainuddin]]
| apogee
| ApOgEE-
| A User who is interested in having comfortable and end-user friendly free Office Suite for me and friends around me
| -
| [https://edge.launchpad.net/~apogee ApOgEE on Launchpad]
| [http://coderstalk.blogspot.com Coder's Talk Blog]
| [[Image:Gitar-192x192.jpg]]
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:gleb|Gleb]]
| gleb
| -
| Just a user
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Alexander Pott|juniorsplat]]
| Alexander Pott
| -
| Just a user
| -
| -
| -
| -

| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:AndreasSchuderer|Andreas Schuderer]]
| anjoschu
| anjoschu
| Linguist, Interaction Designer
| -
| -
| [http://www.schuderer.net/experiments.shtml Live Mockups & Experiments]
| [[Image:Andreas_Schuderer.jpg]]
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:discoleo|Leonard Mada]]
| -
| -
| Medical Doctor, Biomedical Informatics
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:TokyoWitch|Maria Turk]]
| TokyoWitch
| TokyoWitch
| Artist, Interaction Designer
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:ajpursell|Tony Pursell]]
| ajpursell
| -
| User
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:wizard|Matthew Green]]
| wizard
|
| User; Long time user and lecturer to users of the ''other'' office suite (circa 1992)
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:TheGurkha|TheGurkha]]
| TheGurkha
|
| User; long-time software professional, I manage a development team.
| -
| -
| -
| -
| 2008-08-29

|-
| [[User:Massoud|Massoud Toussi]]
| Massoud
|
| Medical Doctor, Biomedical Informatics; I love Open Source concept.
| -
| -
| [http://closeclinical.com]
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Max13|Adnan RIHAN]]
| Max_13
| Max13
| WebMaster / WebDeveloper; Founder of an Open Source Association/Comunity; Student...
| -
| [http://www.virtual-info.wb.st/ = Virtual-Info =]
| -
| [[Image:Vinfologo_tiny.png]]
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Ophilar|Ophilar]]
| Ophilar
| -
| User, Student, much in favour of FOSS and try to convert others
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Sryii|Joshua Horton]]
| Sryii
| Sryii
| Just a user, focused on use of OpenOffice.org for the scientific research
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Vincent_Rappa|Vincent Rappa]]
| Vincent Rappa
| Hawkskater
| Ubuntu fan trying to improve open source applications
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Dz0|Vincent Rappa]]
| Dz0
| -
| User; I want to have comfortable free office suite (for oneself and others), and I try to promote it (especially in education)
| -
| [http://akl.lt/en Open Source for Lithuania]
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:JaronBaron|Jaron Kuppers]]
| JaronBaron
| -
| Mech. Eng., User, Supporter of Open Source Projects, Amateur UI designer
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Rcsilva83|Rodrigo Carvalho]]
| Rcsilva83
| -
| User, developer and free software lover!
| -
| -
| [http://rcarvalho.wordpress.com/ http://rcarvalho.wordpress.com/]
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:praachee|Prachi Gupta]]
| PG
| -
| Software Engineer interested in making software more user friendly.
| -
| -
| -
| [[Image:Picture.jpg]]
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Trisi|Trisilav]]
| Trisilav
| Trisilav
| Student, and independent ui designer, member of the OpenOffice.org Art team
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Abhar|F. Abhar]]
| Abhar
|
| Student, part-time Software Research Engineer
| -
| -
| -
| -
| 2008-07-28

|-
| [[User:cirano13|Arvind]]
| Arvind
|
| Student
| -
| -
| -
| -
| 2008-08-14

|-
| [[User:Sbw99|Sean Brady]]
| sbw99
| -
| UX professional offers expertise in agile usability testing, ethnographic research, interaction design
| -
| -
| -
|
| 2008-09-04

|-
| [[User:digitalpractices|Garth A. Buchholz]]
| digitalpractices
| -
| Certified Usability Analyst (HFI), Internet researcher and User Experience Designer with expertise in government and corporate Web sites
| -
| [http://digitalpractices.com/ DigitalPractices Media Inc.]
| [http://digitalpractices.com/ DigitalPractices.com]
| [[Image:Dp-logo.jpg]]
| 2008-09-18

|-
| [[User:D_b|db email me for full name.]]
|Db.
|
| Student
| -
| -
| -
| -
| 2008-30-10

|-
| [[User:seijideasign|Sébastien JUST]]
| seijideasign
| seijideasign
| IT Manager with expertise in end-user behavior
| Writer, Calc and Draw ergonomics and productivity improvement
| [http://www.seij.net seijideasign Web Site]
| [http://seijideasign.blogspot.com/ seijideasign Blog]
| -
| 2008-11-15

|}

You want to be part of the User Experience Team? Then please refer to [[User Experience/Community/How To Join|How to Join]].

== Related Pages ==
* [[DomainDeveloper]]
* [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMemberList ux.openoffice.org project member list]

[[Category:User Experience|Community]]

User:Seijideasign

2008-11-15T11:45:51Z

Seijideasign:

{{User Experience Community}}

Hi, welcome to my user space on OpenOffice Wiki.

More than twenty years into computer engineering ( yeah I began early, I'm just 32 :p ) . Actually IT Manager for a French Company ( 1000+ end-users ), into OpenSource software, and first-time user of OpenOffice .

OpenOffice is, I think, the best Office suite ever, but the lack of real improvements over productivity office these last years , ( and so much ideas in my head ) pushed me to join the User Experience Team. There are many things to discuss about, I think. Hope it'll help.

User:Seijideasign

2008-11-15T11:44:19Z

Seijideasign: New page: Hi, welcome to my user space on OpenOffice Wiki. More than twenty years into computer engineering ( yeah I began early, I'm just 32 :p ) . Actually IT Manager for a French Company ( 1000...

Hi, welcome to my user space on OpenOffice Wiki.

More than twenty years into computer engineering ( yeah I began early, I'm just 32 :p ) . Actually IT Manager for a French Company ( 1000+ end-users ), into OpenSource software, and first-time user of OpenOffice .

OpenOffice is, I think, the best Office suite ever, but the lack of real improvements over productivity office these last years , ( and so much ideas in my head ) pushed me to join the User Experience Team. There are many things to discuss about, I think. Hope it'll help.

User Experience/Team

2008-11-15T11:37:51Z

Seijideasign: /* Members of the User Experience Team */

{{User Experience}}
__NOTOC__
This is the list of our members who want to share some information about themselves. It extends the [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMemberList Project Member List] which is necessary to administer the [http://ux.openoffice.org/ User Experience project] but does allow to add any personal note. Adding information to this list is suggested at the wiki page [[User Experience/Community/How To Join|How to Join]] the User Experience team.

If you would like to add some information, please allow me to give some remarks:
* The OpenOffice.org login name is the name which does also serve as you email address (''loginname''@openoffice.org).
* The comments may contain your motivation for joining the UX project.
* The special interest states your personal interest or special knowledge for OpenOffice.org UX. It may be interesting for both people outside the team and us to judge what knowledge we can provide and what is missing. Just add:
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* Please do not forget to add the date of your data's last update in the format YYYY-MM-DD. (This is an indicator for the up-to-dateness and helps us to directly contact people who may still in this list, but don't have any interest anymore. For us, its far easier than searching in the the Wiki page [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=User_Experience/Team&action=history history]).

''Thank you very much!''

== Members of the User Experience Team ==

{| class="prettytable sortable" border="1"
|-
! Name and User Site
! OpenOffice.org Login Name
! [[IRC Communication|IRC]] Name
! Comments
! OpenOffice.org Special Interest
! Affiliation
! Blog
! Picture
! Last Update

|-
| [[User:Fl|Frank Loehmann]]
| fl
| frankl
| Project lead [http://ux.openoffice.org OOo UX project]
| -
| [http://www.sun.com/openoffice Sun Microsystems, Inc.]
| [http://ux.openoffice.org/blog/ OOo UX Blog]
| [[Image:Picture_FL.jpg]]
| 2008-07-27

|-
| [[User:ChristophNoack|Christoph Noack]]
| christophnoack
| christoph_n
| Project co-lead [http://ux.openoffice.org OOo UX project]
| OpenOffice.org
| -
| [http://ux.openoffice.org/blog/ OOo UX Blog]
| [[Image:User_Christoph_Noack.png]]
| 2008-07-27

|-
| [[Lutz Hoeger]]
| lh
| lutzh
| Senior Product Manager Office Productivity Tools
| -
| [http://www.sun.com/openoffice Sun Microsystems, Inc.]
| [http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/tags/user-experience GullFOSS]
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Mmp|Matthias Müller-Prove]]
| mmp
| mprove
| User Experience Architect<br>(Sun Desktop Virtualization)
| -
| [http://www.sun.com/virtualization Sun Microsystems, Inc.]
| [http://uxooo.blogspot.com/ uxooo.blogspot.com]
| http://www.mprove.de/_media/mprove/mmp.jpg
| 1-Apr-2008

|-
| [[Bettina Haberer]]
| bh
| bettina_h
| User Experience Engineer
| -
| [http://www.sun.com/openoffice Sun Microsystems, Inc.]
| [http://ux.openoffice.org/blog/ OOo UX Blog]
| -
| 2008-07-27

|-
| [[User:Cj|Christian Jansen]]
| cj
| chris-j
| User Experience Engineer
| -
| [http://www.sun.com/openoffice Sun Microsystems, Inc.]
| [http://ux.openoffice.org/blog/ OOo UX Blog]
| -
| 2008-07-27

|-
| [[User:andba|Andreas Bartel]]
| andba
| andba
| User Experience Engineer
| -
| [http://www.sun.com/openoffice Sun Microsystems, Inc.]
| [http://ux.openoffice.org/blog/ OOo UX Blog]
| [[Image:AndreasBartel.jpg]]
| -
| 2008-09-29

|-
| [[User:Gawry|Gustavo Gawry]]
| gawry
| gawry
| User Experience Analyst
| -
| [http://www.sirius.com.br Sirius Interativa (portuguese)]
| [http://www.gawry.com Gawry (portuguese)]
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:cornouws|Cor Nouws]]
| cornouws
| cornouws
| OpenOffice.org trainer <br>OOo extensions developer
| -
| [http://www.nouenoff.nl Nou&Off (Dutch)]
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:wyrfel|André Wyrwa]]
| wyrfel
| wyrfel
| -
| -
| -
| [http://wyrfel.reukauf.com Wyrtual Life]
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:josmar52789|Martin]]
| josmar52789
| -
| Web Developer / System Administrator
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:CaioTiago|Caio Tiago Oliveira]]
| asrail
| asrail
| Computer Scientist / Accessibility lover
| -
| [http://broffice.org BrOffice.org]
| [http://my.opera.com/Asrail Asrail (mainly portuguese)]
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Akashxavier|Akash Xavier]]
| akashxavier
| SingAlong
| Web Developer / User Interface Designer
| -
| [http://cafecamp.com Cafecamp.com]
| [http://jax.blogspot.com Jax's Blog]
| -

|-
| [[User:frank_de_boer|Frank de Boer]]
| Frank_de_boer
| T1
| User Experience Engineer
| -
| -
| -
| http://home.versatel.nl/j.a.deboer/fotoschets.jpg
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:ApOgEE|M. Fauzilkamil Zainuddin]]
| apogee
| ApOgEE-
| A User who is interested in having comfortable and end-user friendly free Office Suite for me and friends around me
| -
| [https://edge.launchpad.net/~apogee ApOgEE on Launchpad]
| [http://coderstalk.blogspot.com Coder's Talk Blog]
| [[Image:Gitar-192x192.jpg]]
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:gleb|Gleb]]
| gleb
| -
| Just a user
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Alexander Pott|juniorsplat]]
| Alexander Pott
| -
| Just a user
| -
| -
| -
| -

| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:AndreasSchuderer|Andreas Schuderer]]
| anjoschu
| anjoschu
| Linguist, Interaction Designer
| -
| -
| [http://www.schuderer.net/experiments.shtml Live Mockups & Experiments]
| [[Image:Andreas_Schuderer.jpg]]
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:discoleo|Leonard Mada]]
| -
| -
| Medical Doctor, Biomedical Informatics
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:TokyoWitch|Maria Turk]]
| TokyoWitch
| TokyoWitch
| Artist, Interaction Designer
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:ajpursell|Tony Pursell]]
| ajpursell
| -
| User
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:wizard|Matthew Green]]
| wizard
|
| User; Long time user and lecturer to users of the ''other'' office suite (circa 1992)
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:TheGurkha|TheGurkha]]
| TheGurkha
|
| User; long-time software professional, I manage a development team.
| -
| -
| -
| -
| 2008-08-29

|-
| [[User:Massoud|Massoud Toussi]]
| Massoud
|
| Medical Doctor, Biomedical Informatics; I love Open Source concept.
| -
| -
| [http://closeclinical.com]
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Max13|Adnan RIHAN]]
| Max_13
| Max13
| WebMaster / WebDeveloper; Founder of an Open Source Association/Comunity; Student...
| -
| [http://www.virtual-info.wb.st/ = Virtual-Info =]
| -
| [[Image:Vinfologo_tiny.png]]
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Ophilar|Ophilar]]
| Ophilar
| -
| User, Student, much in favour of FOSS and try to convert others
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Sryii|Joshua Horton]]
| Sryii
| Sryii
| Just a user, focused on use of OpenOffice.org for the scientific research
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Vincent_Rappa|Vincent Rappa]]
| Vincent Rappa
| Hawkskater
| Ubuntu fan trying to improve open source applications
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Dz0|Vincent Rappa]]
| Dz0
| -
| User; I want to have comfortable free office suite (for oneself and others), and I try to promote it (especially in education)
| -
| [http://akl.lt/en Open Source for Lithuania]
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:JaronBaron|Jaron Kuppers]]
| JaronBaron
| -
| Mech. Eng., User, Supporter of Open Source Projects, Amateur UI designer
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Rcsilva83|Rodrigo Carvalho]]
| Rcsilva83
| -
| User, developer and free software lover!
| -
| -
| [http://rcarvalho.wordpress.com/ http://rcarvalho.wordpress.com/]
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:praachee|Prachi Gupta]]
| PG
| -
| Software Engineer interested in making software more user friendly.
| -
| -
| -
| [[Image:Picture.jpg]]
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Trisi|Trisilav]]
| Trisilav
| Trisilav
| Student, and independent ui designer, member of the OpenOffice.org Art team
| -
| -
| -
| -
| (unknown)

|-
| [[User:Abhar|F. Abhar]]
| Abhar
|
| Student, part-time Software Research Engineer
| -
| -
| -
| -
| 2008-07-28

|-
| [[User:cirano13|Arvind]]
| Arvind
|
| Student
| -
| -
| -
| -
| 2008-08-14

|-
| [[User:Sbw99|Sean Brady]]
| sbw99
| -
| UX professional offers expertise in agile usability testing, ethnographic research, interaction design
| -
| -
| -
|
| 2008-09-04

|-
| [[User:digitalpractices|Garth A. Buchholz]]
| digitalpractices
| -
| Certified Usability Analyst (HFI), Internet researcher and User Experience Designer with expertise in government and corporate Web sites
| -
| [http://digitalpractices.com/ DigitalPractices Media Inc.]
| [http://digitalpractices.com/ DigitalPractices.com]
| [[Image:Dp-logo.jpg]]
| 2008-09-18

|-
| [[User:D_b|db email me for full name.]]
|Db.
|
| Student
| -
| -
| -
| -
| 2008-30-10

|-
| [[User:seijideasign|Sébastien JUST]]
| seijideasign
| seijideasign
| IT Manager with expertise in end-user behavior
| Writer, Calc and Draw ergonomics and productivity improvement
| [http://www.seij.eu seijideasign Web Site]
| [http://seijideasign.blogspot.com/ seijideasign Blog]
| -
| 2008-11-15

|}

You want to be part of the User Experience Team? Then please refer to [[User Experience/Community/How To Join|How to Join]].

== Related Pages ==
* [[DomainDeveloper]]
* [http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMemberList ux.openoffice.org project member list]

[[Category:User Experience|Community]]