[OSM-talk] OSM User Testing

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemed.net
Sat Oct 2 15:47:45 BST 2010


SteveC wrote:
> We need to think of some simple tasks for new users to complete, and 
> we'll put them together over on this wiki page. Add a street? Find a 
> mailing list? Add a point of interest? What should they do? That's 
> up to you.

At the risk of stating the really bleeding obvious, there's not an enormous
amount of point doing user testing on Potlatch 1 given that development of
Potlatch 2 is so far advanced. For example, two lessons you could feasibly
take from P1 user testing are "what the hell's with this tagging thing?",
and "why doesn't this map look at all like the one I had a minute ago?",
both of which are of course addressed with P2.

It might be possible to get some generalised issues from it, of course. But
since it would be a shame to waste a promising initiative on things that
have already been fixed, it might be worth concentrating on some of the
other aspects of the site (like the whole lack-of-documentation "what the
hell do I do now" thing).

cheers
Richard
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