Most useful response of the thread ;-)
I suppose for this issue (testing various indicators) we'd make mockup
pages that work just like the Wikipedia page, but which have the
various options for magnifier icons - so not just the framed image
with the various possible icons, but a whole page with them.
Then we can try each on a few people and collate our results in this
thread. Then someone can gather those *all* up and add them to the
bug.
Sound like a plan?
- d.
On 24/02/2008, Michel Vuijlsteke <wikipedia(a)zog.org> wrote:
# sit user in front of wikipedia, ask them to find an
image of, say, Ghandi
#*cringe as they go through
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=image+of+ghandi&go=Go and
the like
#* eventually: arrive at, say, [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]]
# ask user: who do you think made this image? how would you find out?
#* sit back and try not to get worked up that they don't click the image to
see a larger size and the author information :)
#* eventually: arrive, at e.g.
<nowiki>[[Image:Gandhi_studio_1931.jpg]]</nowiki>
# ask user: who put this image on this page? how would you find out?
#* '''note''': you could switch q2 and q3, and you could add
things like "do
you think you are allowed to use this image on your own web site" -- the
questions are asking for various aspects of the information present on the
image detail page
Lather, rinse, repeat with different icons and variations of credits
under/around/near the image. I think this may be one of those rare occasions
when eye tracking *might* be useful.
Oh, and this may also help improve the design of the image detail page,
which, frankly, is horrendous.
Michel Vuijlsteke
Deisgn advisor,
www.namahn.com :)
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 1:58 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a professional human factors expert in
the house?
- d.
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From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Date: 24 Feb 2008 12:58
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] [WikiEN-l] Musing with professional
photographers: further lessons learned
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On 24/02/2008, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 24/02/2008, Chris McKenna
<cmckenna(a)sucs.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Florian Straub wrote:
> > I like the idea, but aren't
magnifiers reserved for "search"?
> In PDF readers at least, magnifiers are
used for zoom, and
binoculours
> (sp?) for search.
My unscientific sample of two said "it'd
give you a bigger version"
when I asked them what they thought it meant. It looks a lot like the
magnifier on Adobe Acrobat.
I stress again that we need a proper professional human factors expert
on the case. Is there anyone reading this who counts as such, who
could tell us the right questions to ask? Then all interested parties
can run this right set of questions past people they know!
- d.
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