The Libreoffice UX team shows a proposal for the management of change tracking. It intends to have a comprehensive and good-looking overview but with the flexibility to add future enhancements. This article was posted first on 2015-Feb-19 at user-prompt.com (site closed now) Introduction Track changes is an essential feature that
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How to make LibreOffice Customization usable
Libreoffice customization is quite powerful in terms of functionality but has some room for improvement regarding usability. This blog post starts the discussion about requirements with the current scope and shows some mockups that might be an improvement to the current design. This article was posted first on 2015-Jan-22 at
How people utilize LibreOffice Impress
In the last couple of weeks, we have run surveys for Writer and Calc in order to gather user feedback on optimizations we were making to the toolbar and applications. So here are the results of our recent survey analysis for Impress. This article was posted first on 2014-Dec-27 at
Results of survey about LibreOffice Calc’s toolbar configuration
Our goal is to unclutter the toolbars from functions that are rarely used and to add those that are more frequently used. In order to verify improvements that we were making to LibreOffice Calc’s we asked users about their needs and preferences toolbars. Here are the results. This article was
How designers think about ‘Save as…’
The metaphor of a floppy for Save is one of the most controversially discussed and challenged icons. There are haters who argue that many younger people never have seen a floppy (except at the Save icons). And there are lovers who favor the clear and unique depiction of the floppy.
Tip the tool: How to label toolbar functions
Toolbar functions should be labeled consistently starting with a verb which is followed by noun or adverb. We present recommendations to label the functions on LibreOffice’ standard toolbar. This article was posted first on 2013-Apr-26 at user-prompt.com (site closed now). Naming Convention Suitability for learning and self-descriptiveness, two of the
Motifs as an empiric source for personas
This is the last post about our LibreOffice survey done with UserWeave and we sum up the main findings. Find out about the users of LibreOffice and how motifs can help you to create better personas. If you are interested in more detailed background information, please have a look at