Test Server Feedback

After spending 3 hours going through google and contacting one of my old professors (exactly his field) I have not been able to find a respectable study to back up the notion of "Removing all colour from context which only includes different and detailed shapes improves the time it takes for humans to find the correct shape". There were about 7 studies with a total of 9 citations between them saying this but they're not either current (1970's says "hi") or were never cited and cannot be considered valid. Three of these studies were limited to 8 shapes or less.

I have to join you on this request on CCP to quote the study. After all, quoting the content of a study and not quoting the study itself is bad form and will get you laughed at.

Personally I really like the new icons, they are easy to interpret. I am finding it really hard going back to TQ now that I have experienced the latest Singularity version. The only thing that stands out for me is there should needs more options for the window opacity/blur on off.

The smaller station services icons are great.

A lot of the core HCI work that's been done was originally done in the '70s. This is one field where the age of the work doesn't necessarily invalidate it. Actually, that's true in general. Remember that humans haven't changed much. So a human's ability to distinguish between shapes and how color influences that would not have changed since the '70s. Our eyes and brains haven't changed since then, why should the result have?

New HCI material that covers interactions that weren't possible in the '70s wouldn't be valid and there wasn't a lot on virtual reality then. Also touch screens weren't as refined, but the core concepts are there. Ubiquity of touch screens give us a lot more data than we used to have so some conclusions have changed, but all the core work has been done.

The Mac usability guidelines that Apple still uses today are almost unchanged from when Jeff Raskin originally wrote them back in the '70's and '80s.

And all that said, iconography predates all of that. So, no, your older studies are still valid.

Sooo, CCP Arrow said there would be Dev responses to feedback this weekend....

Unless it was in some unrelated thread in the '3rd party developer' subforum like the invention changes "response"....

CCP's 'embeded QA', start doing your flippin job. I can understand you are busy, but there is simply no good reason to NOT RESPOND for this long (almost 4 weeks) to the very feedback thread you created whilst begging for feedback.

Yes some stuff seems to have been addressed in recent patches, but A LOT of it still remains untouched...with less than a week before it is supposed to be pushed out. IMHO it needs a fair bit of love before its ready for the general population.

A lot of these studies are behind journal paywalls, but you might be able to find them at your local college library. I'm no longer a student so most of my knowledge now is gained from reading summations of various material. I, however, can point people to some authors of usability works in general.

Don Norman
Jakob Nielsen
Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini
Jeff Raskin
Jared Spool
Edward Tufte
Steve Krug

I'm sure there are younger people now, but these are who I learned in school and what they've written mostly still applies. Many of their books still sit on my shelves because of a firm understanding that they are still relevant -- much more so than my books on specific technologies.

Nothing else to add! :)

OK.


But can you find anything that shows that a blury UI is good?

hey gents

when I go to move fleet members around, the initial click and drag selects everyone in squad. I don't recall it acting that way before. any chance we could eliminate this double click requirement to select individual fleet members?

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you fixed it? that was fast

YESSss!!

Thank You for listening and enabling on/off feature for window blur effects..

I'm still disappointed by the lack of color choices and therefore to me this is still a step back.