OpenOffice.org User Experience
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Contents
User Experience Project
People
- User Experience Community for OpenOffice.org
Communication Channels
- IRC Communication
- we have our own channel at irc://freenode/ux.openoffice.org
- IRC Etiquette
- Mailing list
- discuss@openoffice.org (web archive, google web archive (does not work/Mmp), google feeds)
- Blogs
- GullFOSS blog postings on user-experience
- Subscribe to user-experience related postings on GullFOSS
- Yahoo! pipes aggregation of blogs related to our project (web version)
- Subscribe to an RSS feed for the above (rss link)
Documents
Guidelines
- OpenOffice.org User Interface Guidelines
- General UI Style Guides
Specifications
- UI Specifications for OpenOffice.org 2.0 and later versions
- UI Specifications for OpenOffice.org 1.1.x
Usability Reports
- Linux Usability Study by relevantive GmbH, Jul 2003; report_en.pdf, results on OOo starting at page 34
- StarOffice Calc v. MS Excel: Improving the Usability of an Open Source Spreadsheet Application. Susanne Eklund, Michal Feldman, and Mary Trombley. University of California, Berkeley, Dec 2001
- A Usability Comparision of Sun StarOffice Writer 5.2 vs. Microsoft Word 2000. Katherine Everitt, Scott Lederer. University of California, Berkeley, Dec 2001
Publications
- User Experience for OpenOffice.org. Matthias Müller-Prove, interfaces #70, 2007
- Professional Usability in Open Source Projects: GNOME, OpenOffice.org, NetBeans. short paper for CHI 2004 by Calum Benson, Jiri Mzourek, and Matthias Müller-Prove
- User Experience Panel at OpenOffice.org Conference 2003
General Resources (other than OOo)
- Floss Usability Special Interest Group. A follow-up wiki for the CHI 2007 SIG titled Usability and Free/Libre/Open Source Software SIG: HCI Expertise and Design Rationale
