by Jono Bacon | Sep 6, 2011 | Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Usability
Before I get started I want to provide a cast-iron caveat here: *I am not a professional interface designer*. While I have an interest in interaction design and usability, it is not my profession and most of my experience is from working on spare-time projects and...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 28, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Usability
I want to share a short story with you folks as the basis for a little challenge I wanted to set. Let me start at the beginning. A little while back *John Lea*, a member of the [Canonical Design Team](https://design.canonical.com/) filed [this...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 28, 2007 | Desktop, Usability
Interface design is a complex business. There are a great many schools of thought about how to build an effective interface, and ultimately no-one is 100% correct. Lots of theory, lots of academia, lots of opinion, but little hard evidence about what design constructs...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 29, 2007 | Community, Desktop, Jokosher, Ubuntu, Usability
The other day I did an interview with the fellas on the [Linux Action Show](https://www.linuxactionshow.com/?p=79). They are nice guys, good fun, and the interview covered my work with Ubuntu, Jokosher, my [new...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 27, 2007 | Desktop, Jokosher, Usability
On the Monday at LCA, there was a GNOME Love session as part of gnome.conf.au. In this session a bunch of us shouted out things to discuss, and I shouted out ‘application design and usability’. What I didn’t realise was that shouting out a suggestion...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 22, 2006 | Desktop, Jokosher, Usability
When we started the Jokosher project, we wanted it to kick arse and take names when it came to usability, but also attractiveness. This is why my-friend-and-yours J5 is displayed in the New Project dialog, and why we have spent a lot of time on making Jokosher look...
