MockUp
A MockUp or Wireframe denotes a rudimentary prototype of the user interface of a software to create. MockUps are used especially in early development phases in order to create the demands of the user interface in collaboration with clients and users.
Monday August 24th, 2015 by Heiko Tietze and Alexander Mezin
KDE control module usability using the example of KCM for pointing devices
After reorganizing the system setting structure, the KDE control modules (KCM) should be updated as well. The pointing device KCM should be the proof-of-concept for all design ideas. Your feedback is highly appreciated, especially in respect to the duality of simple vs. advanced.more...
Wednesday May 20th, 2015 by Heiko Tietze
KSysGuard: The Green Paper
This green paper summarizes user comments regarding needs and wishes for a new KSysGuard and presents a couple of mockups to initiate the discussion at the KDE forums.more...
Thursday April 16th, 2015 by Heiko Tietze, Yousuf Philips and Jan Holešovský
Libreoffice Design Session: Inserting a Chart
The Libreoffice UX team presents ideas for an updated workflow to insert charts. We show mockups how the dialog may look like and idea how to tweak your graph to perfection.more...
Thursday April 2nd, 2015 by Heiko Tietze, Yousuf Philips, Mattias Põldaru and Jan Holešovský
Libreoffice Design Session: Shapes
The Libreoffice UX team presents two proposals on how to access shapes from the sidebar, with the goal to unify the look and feel of Libreoffice tools and to get more space for additional categories of shapes.more...
Thursday March 26th, 2015 by Heiko Tietze and Yousuf Philips
Libreoffice Design Session: Special Character
The Libreoffice UX team presents two proposals for an improved dialog to insert special characters. While the first option was designed with a good balance between effort and benefit in mind, the second solution would be really awesome.more...
Thursday March 19th, 2015 by Heiko Tietze, Yousuf Philips and Jan Holešovský
Libreoffice Design Session: CMIS Improvement
The Libreoffice UX team presents a proposal for an improved integration of content management interoperability services (CMIS). It was the outcome of the second 'design session' that will be conducted regularly.more...
Thursday March 12th, 2015 by Heiko Tietze, Yousuf Philips, Cor Nouws, Mattias Põldaru and Jan Holešovský
Libreoffice Design Session: Entries at Indexes and Tables
The Libreoffice UX team presents a proposal for an improved dialog to tweak the entries of table of contents. It was the outcome of the first 'design session' that will be conducted regularly.more...
Thursday February 19th, 2015 by Heiko Tietze
Tracking changes with Libreoffice
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.more...
Tuesday February 10th, 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...
Thursday January 22nd, 2015 by Heiko Tietze
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.more...
Wednesday October 22nd, 2014 by Heiko Tietze
How could KTracks look like?
In a series of articles we illustrate the user centered design process from scratch, based on a still missing application in the KDE world: KTracks, an endurance activity tracker. In this part #3 we present mockups of the application.more...
Tuesday September 23rd, 2014 by Heiko Tietze, Andreas Cord-Landwehr and Björn Balazs
Reprise of Akademy 2014: Artikulate
During Akademy 2014 BoFs we scrutinized some applications usability and visual design. In this article we present the outcome of our work with the KDE pronunciation trainer 'Artikulate'.more...
Tuesday September 16th, 2014 by Heiko Tietze and Jens Reuterberg
Reprise of Akademy 2014: KCM for network manager
Based on a BoF workshop and discussions during the Akademy 2014, we present a proposal for discussion how to integrate the network manager settings into KDE's system setting.more...
Sunday July 13th, 2014 by User Prompt
Active seminar for user-centered development
Modern product development puts the user in the center at an early stage. Our active seminar equips you with the knowledge you need to do so.more...
Thursday June 12th, 2014 by Heiko Tietze and Björn Balazs
KDE System Settings: About the general navigation
KDE system settings are subject of ongoing discussions. In this article we present two alternative interactive prototypes for a possible future of the design. Please vote for the approach you like most.more...
by Heiko Tietze
How to use Balsamiq Mockups
Balsamiq Mockups is an application that allows to arrange pre-built widgets using a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG editor. It is used to create drafts for the discussion of preliminary solutions in the user-centered development. We introduce the tool and give some advices for best practice.more...
Wednesday May 7th, 2014 by Björn Balazs
KDE Network Manager: Details sorted
More than 800 people participated in our online sorting of the KDE Network Manager details. In this article we present the results.more...
Thursday January 16th, 2014 by Björn Balazs
KNetworkManager: Approaching the finishing line
The next iteration of the KDE Network Manager brings it on the finishing line. Again we are looking for your feedback.more...
Thursday January 2nd, 2014 by Björn Balazs and Heiko Tietze
KDE HIG: Survey about how to align controls over multiple groups
In the course of revising the KDE HIG we reached a point where visual aspects are considered, in particular the alignment of controls. We'd like to ask you how to align controls over multiple groups.more...
Monday December 16th, 2013 by Björn Balazs
Connect to Network Manager Prototype…
Building upon the lively response on the survey about the management of network connections in KDE, we now put a proposal for the further development up for discussion.more...
Friday December 13th, 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...
Thursday November 14th, 2013 by Björn Balazs
Shape the Future of Managing Network Connections in KDE
On the occasion of the World Usability Day 2013, we ask you - the users - to help us shape the future of KDE network connection management.more...
Tuesday September 17th, 2013 by Björn Balazs and Heiko Tietze
KScreen: Proposal for the user interface
We present our first suggestion for the future KScreen UI based on the results of the survey about requirements.more...
Monday September 17th, 2012 by Heiko Tietze and Björn Balazs
Usability Engineering for Medical Devices following ISO/IEC 62366
Medical devices are subject to highest security conditions. To avoid misuse we adapted our development process to be compliant with the ISO 62366.more...
Tuesday February 2nd, 2010 by Björn Balazs
Tine 2.0 Mock-Up-Challenge on the finishing line…
The Tine 2.0 Mock-Up Challenge is closing the doors. This is you last chance to help to define the future of Tine 2.0.more...
Friday December 18th, 2009 by Björn Balazs
Tine 2.0 community mock-up challenge
Today we are announcing the Tine 2.0 community mock-up challenge, to involve you and your ideas even deeper into the future development of Tine 2.0.more...
Thursday July 24th, 2008 by Björn Balazs
Filter in Tine
A new concept for filtering data in Tine 2.0 has been developed by us. It makes easy, yet powerful selection of data possible.more...
Wednesday March 26th, 2008 by Björn Balazs
Basic Layout Thoughts
We created first drafts of the application layout for Tine 2.0 . We try to keep productivity and ease of use in balance.more...