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Designers & Hackers

mirek2
October 17, 2012

Designers & Hackers

Introduction to the way design is done on the LibreOffice design team for developers who'd like to incorporate it into their workflow and perhaps work with the design team.
Accompanies the Berlin 2012 LibreOffice Conference "Designers and Hackers: Working Together" talk.

mirek2

October 17, 2012
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  1. “to contrive for a purpose, to project for the attainment

    of a particular end” - The Century Dictionary, 1911
  2. by Mozilla (w/ Alex Faaborg), based on work by Donald

    Norman, Jakob Nielsen, & Alan Cooper principles
  3. fitts's law + log 2 (1+ / ) TIME FOR

    MOVEMENT = DEVICE SPEED DEVICE LAG DISTANCE TARGET WIDTH ALONG AXIS OF MOTION
  4. hick's law ∑ log 2 (1/ +1) TIME TO CHOOSE

    = i=1 n PROBABILITY OF CHOICE i PROBABILITY OF CHOICE i MENTAL PROCESS SPEED
  5. "A good conceptual model allows us to predict the effects

    of our actions. Without a good model we operate by rote, blindly; we do operations as we were told to do them; we can’t fully appreciate why, what effects to expect, or what to do if things go wrong.“ – Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things