OpenSource Usability Labs

Last week we held an interesting workshop about the goals and usability standards for Tine 2.0. Lars and Nelius visited us in the Apliki Office in Berlin and we had intensive discussions about who Tine 2.0 will be for and what tasks we want support with Tine 2.0.

Basically we started the user-requirements analysis with this workshop. While we will present detailed results later on (as we are still working on them), we managed to define a central starting point of this process - the vision of Tine 2.0:

Tine 2.0 redefines collaboration by activating synergies through high acceptance in your whole organisation. We achieve this by providing an easy to use interface and enjoyable user experience on the basis of a stable, secure and scalable infrastructure.

We would be very happy to get feedback on this vision. Do you think it is valuable? Would you like to use a product that meets this vision? Would you like to stress other aspects?

We are very happy that Robert Lischke decided to join the Tine 2.0 usability team. Robert has been working with us in the OpenUsability.org eGroupware Team before. He said: “Groupware is such a complex product - I just have to be on the Tine 2.0 project!” and we totally agree with that! Robert has profound knowlegde about groupware issues and has for example conducted user-tests with other groupware solutions before.

Welcome Rob!

As our first project we welcome Tine 2.0 to the OpenSource Usability Labs. Tine 2.0 is developed by Metaways Infosystems and redefines collaboration: It combines groupware functionallity with ERP and CRM.

Together we will ensure that the development of Tine 2.0 follows the idea of user-centric development as described in ISO 13407.

We are looking forward to this exciting project.