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Shuttleworth: Ubuntu's Indicator Menus

Posted Apr 21, 2010 19:50 UTC (Wed) by dfsmith (guest, #20302)
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Ubuntu's Indicator Menus

My phone places indicators in a fixed order in the top right of the screen and it works nicely.

But, in a windowed environment (i.e., not my phone) I like my windows near the top and indicators down at the bottom where they're not intrusive on my current tasks. (E.g., that darn email flag keeps going up---I want it, but only when I'm "context switching".)

Different work idioms -> different indicator places.

I'd like to see the user experience research that Ubuntu is using to show that I'm in the minority here....

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User Experience Research

Posted Apr 21, 2010 21:31 UTC (Wed) by sladen (subscriber, #27402) [Link]

I recall that from time-to-time there have been invitations for people willing to take part in testing sessions; eg. recently:

To actively contribute to these testing sessions might be a way to guarantee that your experiences are included in the results of future relevant "user experience research" tests. These invitations appear to be primarily aimed at people in the United Kingdom—those able to easily travel to Canonical's Headquarters at Millbank (next to the River Thames in London)—but I suspect that emailed comments would be equally welcomed aswell!

User Experience Research

Posted Apr 22, 2010 9:38 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Millbank? I'm used to seeing *that* name only in the Private Eye. Did Mark buy the Labour spin-doctors central or something? :)

User Experience Research

Posted Apr 22, 2010 10:10 UTC (Thu) by AlexHudson (subscriber, #41828) [Link]

Labour only had the basement and moved out in 2002 - time to update your Eye collection methinks?