OpenOffice.org User Experience

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User Experience Project

• User Experience Project on OpenOffice.org
• User Experience ToDo List

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

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

Specifications

• UI Specifications for OpenOffice.org 2.0 and later versions
• UI Specifications for OpenOffice.org 1.1.x

Guidelines

• OpenOffice.org User Interface Guidelines
• General UI Style Guides

Publications

• Inhouse und Open Source Projekte – Usability verankern und Synergien nutzen, Usability Professionals 07, Weimar Sep 2-5, 2007 by Ronald Hartwig, Maren Mäuselein, Matthias Müller-Prove, Christian Jansen, Bernd Kieseler, Sabine Özalp
• User Experience for OpenOffice.org. Matthias Müller-Prove, interfaces #71, 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
• mprove: Resources on Open Source Usability