Default Desktop Experience for 11.04 - User testing results

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Kate Stewart wrote on 15/04/11 05:52:
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> On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 23:40 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
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>> On Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:00:31 PM Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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>>> In this summary, I have numbered the participants:
>>> - P1, 19, a student and Mac user
>>> - P2, 33, an administrator and Mac user
>>> - P3, 25, a student and Windows user
>>> - P4, 32, a teacher and Windows user
>>> - P5, 27, a compliance officer who uses both Windows and Mac
>>> - P7, 44, a life coach who uses both Windows and Ubuntu
>>> - P8, 30, an IT network manager and Windows user
>>> - P9, 22, a student and Windows user
>>> - P10, 21, a student and Windows user
>>> - P11, 47, a teacher and Windows user
>>> - P12, 34, an operations manager and Windows user.
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>> Would you characterize this as a reasonable (for it's sample size) 
>> representation of the target audience for Unity?

I've just asked Charline, and she says it is representative of the
target audience for Ubuntu.

> I'd also ask that a couple of folks 60+ (retired, new user to computers,
> as well as existing Mac and windows) be surveyed if possible. 
>...

In the past Canonical has run tests of Ubuntu with other specific
segments, e.g. 50-something women, but we haven't done that sort of
testing on Unity yet. (Of course, nothing prevents any other
organization from testing it with whoever they like.)

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