Tine-Tutorial #1: How to work efficently with Tine 2.0 – Introduction
Friday, February 6th, 2009 by Björn BalazsI have decided to provide some hints how to efficiently work with Tine. And I will do this as a series of blog posts within the next time, accompanying the upcoming spring 2009 release of Tine. Let us start with
Question #1: If Tine 2.0 is so usable, why is there a need for a tutorial?
Tine has been developed with a strong focus on usability. Usability experts and interaction designer have been integrated into the development from day 1 on. We regularly conduct usability tests to improve the product even further. Nevertheless usable does not equal simple or easy to learn. Both attributes are important aspects of a usable product – and of course we try to make Tine as simple and easy to learn as possible. But these attributes are not the foremost criteria for optimizing the user-experience of Tine.
When setting the scope for Tine we have decided that interactions and dialogues of Tine should always be
- enjoyable – Tine is designed to be fun to use. So everyone should like to use Tine.
- efficient – Working with Tine must always be efficient. Tine should never come into your way.
In opposite you can say Tine does not maximize the power for a first-time-user. We do not try to oversimplify the rather complex process of a groupware: different, cross-depending applications, a very detailed rights-management,…
So there is a need for some tips how to work efficiently with Tine. These will follow in later posts and hopefully help you to enjoy business collaboration with Tine even more!
