WE TRUST IN COLLABORATION ON EQUAL TERMS

Co-operative knowledge building is our recipe for success. This way we facilitate committed IT manufacturers. We go along with these free and closed source software projects to involve users sustainably into the development.

KDE

Thursday, 10 September 2015 by Heiko Tietze and Andreas Kainz

Baloo KCM

KDE sprint in Randa boosts productivity since VDG members and developers talk directly to each other. In this blog post we present an alternative for the configuration of Baloo file search that meets the guidelines for KCMs.more...

Open Usability e.V.

Monday, 21 September 2009 by Björn Balazs

Lessons from Season of Usability

Read the personal experiences from Julia who participated as a student in the Open Usability Season of Usability, working on Gallery.more...

LibreOffice

Wednesday, 24 April 2013 by Björn Balazs and Heiko Tietze

Metaphors behind icons – which are really useful?

Metaphors determine the association between a function and its icon. But sometimes these metaphors are misleading or ambiguous. With your help, we want to improve the metaphors used in Libreoffice.more...

Intevation

Tuesday, 10 February 2015 by Björn Balazs

Rapid UI development for TrustBridge

TrustBridge is a secure root certificate installer for Windows and Linux. In this article we outline the development of the User Experience.more...

BSI

Tuesday, 10 February 2015 by Björn Balazs

Rapid UI development for TrustBridge

TrustBridge is a secure root certificate installer for Windows and Linux. In this article we outline the development of the User Experience.more...

UserWeave

Tuesday, 4 December 2012 by Björn Balazs

Methodology of Testing Icons

On the occasion of the large scale usability test of the LibreOffice Writer icons, this article explains how subjective and objective measurements can help to understand the quality of an icon-term relationship.more...

phpList

Thursday, 23 October 2014 by Björn Balazs and Anna F J Morris

phpList wants to learn more about their users

phpList has teamed up with User Prompt to learn more about you - the phpList users. The first step is to ask you to participate in a small (5 minute) survey.more...

KDAB

Tuesday, 30 September 2014 by Björn Balazs

Free Usability Mentoring during Qt Developer Days Europe

Due to the generous sponsoring of KDAB, we are able to offer free Usability and User Experience mentoring sessions during Qt Developer Days Europe 2014.more...

Swisslab

Wednesday, 29 August 2012 by Heiko Tietze and Björn Balazs

Styleguide following the Baxley model

Styleguides are essential parts of software development. Together with Swisslab we adopted the 'Universial Model of a User-Interface" by Baxley to create a styleguide.more...

Akademische Arbeitsgemeinschaft

Friday, 13 December 2013 by Heiko Tietze and Björn Balazs

Tax Return: Now even easier!

User Prompt supports the Akademische Arbeitsgemeinschaft in their revision of the tax software 'SteuerSparErklärung'. The first improvements were made on the home page.more...

Tine 2.0

Monday, 25 November 2013 by Björn Balazs and Heiko Tietze

Results of the Tine 2.0 ‘Kristina’ Usability Benchmarking

We are investigating the users' satisfaction with the groupware Tine 2.0 for many years now. The results of the current benchmarking witness the success of our continuous usability work.more...

ELO

Tuesday, 20 August 2013 by Björn Balazs

Measuring customer satisfaction: Benchmarking Usability in a Complex Product Environment

Usability Benchmarking is a cost-effective solution to steer and evaluate the development process. Together with ELO Digital Office we collected questions and approaches.more...