From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: references for usability - Re: Adding icon sets to Emacs -- and next steps for icons.el Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2022 22:18:44 +0300 Message-ID: References: <310877950.2974437.1661344999220@mail1.libero.it> <83k06x6ajp.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37915"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-06-11) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Dmitry Gutov , angelo.g0@libero.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 07 21:20:32 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oW0b8-0009bk-CH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2022 21:20:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39250 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oW0b5-0007eX-JD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:20:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43332) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oW0a6-0006xl-Gc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:19:26 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:36403) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oW0a4-0003xi-L6; Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:19:26 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:102.82.36.66]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000B5AB6.000000006318EEB7.000002FC; Wed, 07 Sep 2022 12:19:19 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Stefan Kangas , Eli Zaretskii , Dmitry Gutov , angelo.g0@libero.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294871 Archived-At: * Stefan Kangas [2022-08-25 02:10]: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > But "the new one" looks black-and-white here? I doubt losing colors > > is going to be loved. > > There is still color: we just use a single one (black). All in all, > black is not necessarily a bad choice: the text I'm reading now is > black, as is the text in any paperback book. > > But we do go from one distinct style to another. This is true. It is > inevitable that some people will love a change like this, while others > will hate it. Others will probably be indifferent. Usability 101: Introduction to Usability https://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-101-introduction-to-usability/ Usability Testing 101 https://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-testing-101/ How Many Test Users in a Usability Study? https://www.nngroup.com/articles/how-many-test-users/ -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/