Hi,

Bart writes:

my name ist Bart and i'm art director at area42 (www.area42.de) and specialized in workflow and GUI design.

I have a lot of experience working together with developers and the different points of view (the typical questions like: What is a good feature? Who can use this? Power user or beginner? What's the concept behind? What is possible? How users try to da this? What's the view of the developer? etc.)

I helped the Blender people and developers with creating GUI mockups, icons and workflow ideas. I try to do that in detail like this: http://www.neeneenee.de/blender/features/

I'd like to help making GIMP better too and hoping that is the correct list for came up withe mockups and ideas. If not please tell me where.

Your help would be much appreciated. We are currently trying to come up with a roadmap towards a better user interface. In my opinion we should try to apply some of the established methods of user interface and interaction design here. I was hoping to find some volunteers for this task at openusabilit.org (see
http://openusability.org/projects/gimp) but so far the discussions have been difficult as many of the participants don't know much about the subject. It would certainly help to have a professional on board.

One of the projects that we started recently is trying to come up with a collection of personas that represent GIMP user groups: http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/GimpUsabilityPersona

Since you seem to be working in Berlin, perhaps you want to join us at the biweekly usability meeting at the CCC rooms? We are discussing and applying usability methods to Open Source software projects. GIMP has been the subject of discussion a few times already. We are also planning to do usability test of GIMP 2.3. Let me know if you are interested to help with that.

Sven

Hi bart,

nice, I'm roughly interested in such things but i'm happy to see an expert, here. I'll try to say some words about gimp UI at LGM, comparing it to some others OS GUI, like tuxpaint's.

Please, keep me informed of your plans.

Cedric

Hay Bart! (Im also a Blender user) But a long time gimp user too.

- How do I get into the persona's? as a 3d modeler and self taught developer , I have my own spin on the gimp for my work. However I seem to be one of the few people who actually like the gimps UI over photoshop.
Though of course theres room for improvement.

- Cam

Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

Bart writes:

my name ist Bart and i'm art director at area42 (www.area42.de) and specialized in workflow and GUI design.

I have a lot of experience working together with developers and the different points of view (the typical questions like: What is a good feature? Who can use this? Power user or beginner? What's the concept behind? What is possible? How users try to da this? What's the view of the developer? etc.)

I helped the Blender people and developers with creating GUI mockups, icons and workflow ideas. I try to do that in detail like this: http://www.neeneenee.de/blender/features/

I'd like to help making GIMP better too and hoping that is the correct list for came up withe mockups and ideas. If not please tell me where.

Your help would be much appreciated. We are currently trying to come up with a roadmap towards a better user interface. In my opinion we should try to apply some of the established methods of user interface and interaction design here. I was hoping to find some volunteers for this task at openusabilit.org (see
http://openusability.org/projects/gimp) but so far the discussions have been difficult as many of the participants don't know much about the subject. It would certainly help to have a professional on board.

One of the projects that we started recently is trying to come up with a collection of personas that represent GIMP user groups: http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/GimpUsabilityPersona

Since you seem to be working in Berlin, perhaps you want to join us at the biweekly usability meeting at the CCC rooms? We are discussing and applying usability methods to Open Source software projects. GIMP has been the subject of discussion a few times already. We are also planning to do usability test of GIMP 2.3. Let me know if you are interested to help with that.

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