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Posted - 2012.05.22 09:23:00 -
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CCP Arrow wrote:Hey folks.
I just wanted to restate what we said in the Dev blog for the Unified Inventory that we wanted to get feedback from those that use SiSi in order to address problems that would occur. We intended on following heavily up on the feedback, doing as much as possible before launch as well as doing even further iterations and fixes in the upcoming release. Team Game of Drones is committed to a new methodology of using the principals of User Centered Design, where the User Experience of our players drives our design decisions.
Not only did we collect all feedback from the Forums, personal posts, Twitter comments and other sources but we took the issues many of you like Grey Stormshadow, Tippia and other have been pointing out and created a User Testing plan which we facilitated last week. In the sessions the whole team observed the live feed and took notes on everything the participants did. We don't do User Tests because we don't believe you when you say there is a problem, we want to address it correctly and by seeing it in action with our own eyes, we can more easily find a solution to the problems you have found.
Is there perhaps a chance EVE players could get involved in this? I roughly know how the procedure works, I (and I am sure others) wouldn't mind following your instructions and writing about our experiences. Or even making a video.
After all we don't want an UI that works for a bunch of tester monkeys. We want an UI that works for regular EVE players, from miners to mission runners to haulers to starbase managers to alliance CEOs.
I feel that the connection between CCP and the playerbase that was estabilished in the fall and culminated in Crucible is breaking apart again. EVE is unique in the fact that I as a player feel that I am directly affecting the course of its development, through the CSM, crowdsourcing, feedback threads, and similar. But now once again features are being designed behind a closed door with nothing but a promise that "it will be awesome" and "iterated on in the future" again. |