Studies

A list of research studies that have been conducted on GNOME.

2021

• Shell UX Changes: The Research, conducted by Allan Day

2020

• GNOME Shell blog posts tagged "uxd-gnome-40":

  • GNOME Shell user research goings on

  • GNOME Shell UX Plans: The Bigger Picture

  • GNOME Shell UX Plans

There might have been other studies made between 2015 and 2020, please document them here.

2016

Renata Gegaj's usability studies (more posts in the "usability" tag on their blog):

• GNOME Usability Test Results (Part 2) by Renata

• GNOME Usability Test Results (Part 1) by Renata

• First impressions of GNOME usability testing by Renata

2015

• Gina Dobrescu's usability tests of Nautilus, Evince, Eye of GNOME, Characters, Calendar: results part 1 and results part 2 (see also her previous blog posts for preparations, scripts, methodology, etc.)

2014

• User tests on GNOME applications (versions 3.10 and 3.12), conducted by Jim Hall

• User tests on GNOME applications (version 3.4), conducted by Jim Hall

2013

• Tests conducted on GNOME Initial Setup, funded by the Intel OTC

2010

• GNOME Shell usability test plan by Máirín Duffy, with WilliamJonMcCann, Jeremy Perry, and Owen Taylor

• Empathy usability study by Canonical

2009

• Netbook usability study idea started by Stormy Peters

• GnomeShell usability study

• Gnome 3.0 General Sociological Research

2005

• Windows Migration Study - Anna Dirks/Pete Goodall, Novell Inc., for GUADEC 2005

2001

• GNOME 1.4 Baseline Usability Study

  • Scenarios and test script (.HTML, 24kB)

  • Study Report (.PDF, 922kB)

  • GUADEC Presentation (.SDD, 208kB)

  • Video of GUADEC presentation (MPG, 1GB)

  • Interview with Calum Benson about the study (LWN.net)