Study Done, Quick Update
Posted by Zachary Lym in Ubiquity on 21. Feb, 2010 | No Comments
I finished the documentation/advertising study of Ubiquity back in November. I haven’t posted anything about it due to a mix of schoolwork and the scholarly journal submission process. Because journals want to maintain copyright, I can’t publish everything I have written thus far. The journal article has a very different focus from what I will [...]
Sessions 6, 7, 8, & 9
Posted by Zachary Lym in Ubiquity, summer09 on 11. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
Despite my best efforts on the documentation front, users still failed to grasp the simplistic syntax scheme of Ubiquity. I suspected this was due to poor contextual “documentation.” So I designed an experiment testing out a simpler skin.
Learning Ubiq P1: Minimalist Documentation
Posted by Zachary Lym in Ubiquity, summer09 on 13. Jul, 2009 | 1 Comment
Today I am going to talk about a typical users, how they learn, and the principals of minimalist documentation. If you want to skip the fluff, head to the minimalist style guidelines for Ubiquity’s documentation.
Why you need more than one.
Posted by Zachary Lym in Ubiquity on 12. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
Ahh finals week, you will get more videos sometime after Friday at 12:30. To tide you over, here is a synopsis of the last test which didn’t go very smoothly. The screen capture software failed to save today’s video, so only a description today : )
