FS#10859 - User Experience and Rockbox- A rethink required?
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Rockbox
Opened by Aditya (adityabhandari) - Thursday, 17 December 2009, 10:36 GMT
Last edited by Paul Louden (Llorean) - Thursday, 17 December 2009, 12:39 GMT
Opened by Aditya (adityabhandari) - Thursday, 17 December 2009, 10:36 GMT
Last edited by Paul Louden (Llorean) - Thursday, 17 December 2009, 12:39 GMT
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DetailsRockbox is an amazing and powerful achievement. I own an iPod video 5g and for me, rockbox was a godsend that allowed me to break free from itunes and its tyrannies.
As much as I love rockbox, I have to say that while a great amount has been accomplished in terms of functionality, the user experience has not been paid due attention. The user interface is very, well, developer like :]. If we want rockbox to be truly embraced, even by the non-technical users, we need to give the user-experience a rethink, and not just a facelift. I am a trained usability engineer and am very interested in collaborating with people interested in taking forward the UX cause. If interested, we can collaborate online. Contact me at ady[dot]bee[at]gmail[dot]com |
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Remember that you need to think about the UI across all targets, not just the iPod 5G. That means starting with very small, very limited monochrome screens and working up.
Also, being a usability engineer means that I am not at all trained to code, develop 'patches', however, I can come up with wireframes for the proposed navigation and use.
Also, could you point me to as to how and where I can be part of the "-dev mailing list"?
The Rockbox mailing list is located at http://www.rockbox.org/mail/
If you're not willing to do any coding at all, though, don't expect a particularly positive response. Everyone has a personal preference for how Rockbox should be. If you can't actually show that your way is better, you're just more or less going to be another person saying "I think it would be great if..."
At the very least you'll need to be able to mock-up a UI somehow or describe exceedingly clearly how everything would work. Then, since you won't code, you'll have to find someone who actually has the time to rewrite a significant portion of the code to do it for you. Not a small task.
I explained why I logged it as a bug, I think you conveniently did not read that bit. Again, who said anything about re-engineering anything? I understand that Rockbox is a HUGE product/project and that whining about things that I don't like would not really make a difference. So, please, give me a break, I want to help, and I don't like to start off any work with hostilities.
YES, I want to contribute! Is that so hard to understand?
So, I am willing to bury the bad feelings and start over again. Let's do this in a forward-thinking way. What say?
Now that we have that out of the way.
Mock-up UIs are something that I can do. And to good detail as well. I can also make flash prototypes so that people understand exactly what I am trying to say.
Btw, I take it that you're a developer? How long have you been associated with Rockbox?
Also, would you happen to know what is the most primitive device supported by rockbox?
Thanks and Regards
Aditya