Hajime! July 12th, 2006
This is my first blog post ever, so I’m very excited! Let me introduce myself:
My name is Chi Shang Cheng (first name: Chi Shang), I’m 20 years old and I’m an Information Science student at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands). I’m involved in the KDE Usability project and the OpenUsability project.
I started this blog, because I wanted to show the KDE community what usability is all about. Also, I wanted to have a medium to address usability issues in an easy to read format.
To kick of this blog, I have just finished a usability report on Kaffeine. Here’s the abstract:
After a short heuristic evaluation of Kaffeine, a total of 40 usability issues were found. Only 5 issues of high severity were found, 20 were marked medium, and the remaining 15 issues considered lowly severe.
Most of the issues were related to unnecessary complexity of the user interface. The application was not tested for task-oriented usability. Even though the application functioned properly from a technical perspective, attention should be given to a more aesthetic user interface design in the future.
Quality-wise, I think the Amarok usability report I wrote earlier is a bit better, mostly because of the use of literature/references. But don’t worry, I have lots in store for the future! 
Feedback is always welcome, since I’m too, still learning. 
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