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2009-12-03
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My question is: does Nokia do this kind of work for Maemo in-house, internally, behind closed doors, or are they basing it on what goes on in the maemo.org community?
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2009-12-03
, 07:51
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@ Mountain View (CA, USA)
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2009-12-03
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What worries me is that the users here clearly don't represent a typical sample of mobile device users. Users on maemo.org tend to be a lot more aware of how their device works, which is great if they want to get the most out of it but not so great if they want to spot problems in user-friendliness.
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2009-12-03
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So first you say maemo.org users are not representative and then you offer yourself in a maemo.org forum?
Nokia looks for representative users where they can be found. You know, companies doing serious market research and usability tests do that.
We take maemo.org with a grain of salt, just like any other singular source.
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2009-12-06
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2009-12-07
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You are also seeing that there are many videos being produced precisely to highlight features that might be not evident to new users.
Obviously all manufacturers do work on making their devices suitable for these kinds of ordinary mainstream non-nerd users.
My question is: does Nokia do this kind of work for Maemo in-house, internally, behind closed doors, or are they basing it on what goes on in the maemo.org community?
What worries me is that the users here clearly don't represent a typical sample of mobile device users. Users on maemo.org tend to be a lot more aware of how their device works, which is great if they want to get the most out of it but not so great if they want to spot problems in user-friendliness.
If there is any kind of programme for making Maemo as user-friendly as possible I'd love to take part in it, but AFAIK there isn't, at least not in public.