[Commons-l] [WikiEN-l] Fwd: Musing with professional photographers: further lessons learned

[David Gerard]

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 at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > Is there a professional human factors expert in the house?
>  >
>  >
>  > - d.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>  > From: David Gerard <dgerard at 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 at lists.wikimedia.org>
>  >
>  >
>  > On 24/02/2008, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > On 24/02/2008, Chris McKenna <cmckenna at 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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