The GIMP has a whole team of usability people working on its usability issues. But what’s more: there’s an online brainstorm, where everyone can contribute visual impressions of ideas. Little text, many pictures. (And it works: in cases such as this one a picture really says more than a thousand words).
A quick glance through the entries shows that the boundaries between feature requests and interface design are not always clear. Many entries focus on new features, which is quite natural if you ask users what they want to change. There are many interesting ideas, though.
What perhaps struck me most is that between the many manipulated screenshots, there were also a few hand-drawn pictures. In general I’d say that these really stand out from the rest, both in the visual aspects and in their clarity. As usual, less is more.
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