Usability Archives - Jono Bacon

Menu Discoverability In Ubuntu 11.10

by Jono Bacon | Sep 6, 2011 | Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Usability

Before I get started I want to provide a cast-iron caveat here: I am not a professional interface designer. While I have an interest in interaction design and usability, it is not my profession and most of my experience is from working on spare-time projects and...

Balancing Freedom and Functionality: A Design Challenge

by Jono Bacon | Mar 28, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Usability

I want to share a short story with you folks as the basis for a little challenge I wanted to set. Let me start at the beginning. A little while back John Lea, a member of the Canonical Design Team filed this bug. The essence of the bug was grounded in one of the...

Organic interface design for GNOME

by Jono Bacon | Mar 28, 2007 | Desktop, Usability

Interface design is a complex business. There are a great many schools of thought about how to build an effective interface, and ultimately no-one is 100% correct. Lots of theory, lots of academia, lots of opinion, but little hard evidence about what design constructs...

Interviewed on Linux Action Show

by Jono Bacon | Jan 29, 2007 | Community, Desktop, Jokosher, Ubuntu, Usability

The other day I did an interview with the fellas on the Linux Action Show. They are nice guys, good fun, and the interview covered my work with Ubuntu, Jokosher, my new book and lots of discussion. Go and download...

Usability and GNOME video from LCA

by Jono Bacon | Jan 27, 2007 | Desktop, Jokosher, Usability

On the Monday at LCA, there was a GNOME Love session as part of gnome.conf.au. In this session a bunch of us shouted out things to discuss, and I shouted out ‘application design and usability’. What I didn’t realise was that shouting out a suggestion...

Making applications look schaweeeeet

by Jono Bacon | Oct 22, 2006 | Desktop, Jokosher, Usability

When we started the Jokosher project, we wanted it to kick arse and take names when it came to usability, but also attractiveness. This is why my-friend-and-yours J5 is displayed in the New Project dialog, and why we have spent a lot of time on making Jokosher look...