Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Windows Workflow Foundation API Usability Lab Video – Part 2 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/137583_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Windows Workflow Foundation API Usability Lab Video – Part 2 The Windows Workflow Foundation team held a usability lab to gather feedback on the WF APIs.  In this video you will see the “behind the glass” view of the usability labs.   You will see the lab participant (Michael) work through a few programming tasks and talk about his experience using the Windows Workflow Foundation APIs. Check out the first part of the usability lab video here.The people you will see in this video are:   Steven Clarke – Usability Engineer Dennis Pilarinos – Program Manager, Windows Workflow Foundation Nancy Lincoln Perry – Usability Engineer Moustafa Ahmed – Program Manager, Windows Workflow Foundation Krishna Sunkammurali – Program Manager, Windows Workflow Foundation Michael – lab participant en Wed, 22 May 2013 16:32:04 GMT Wed, 22 May 2013 16:32:04 GMT Rev9 Re: Windows Workflow Foundation API Usability Lab Video – Part 2
It was pretty insightful as to how usability labs work. The guy being observed added a lot to the video, though, and kept it interesting. I didn't know programmers were supposed to think that much!

posted by geekling

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Workflow-Foundation-API-Usability-Lab-Video--Part-2#c632689058720000000 Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:04:32 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Workflow-Foundation-API-Usability-Lab-Video--Part-2#c632689058720000000 geekling Re: Windows Workflow Foundation API Usability Lab Video – Part 2 Im glad they have decided to do studies on the usability of WWF communications.  Of all things WWF, I am, by far, finding this to be the most difficult concept to grok..

posted by Gberg

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Workflow-Foundation-API-Usability-Lab-Video--Part-2#c632689098490000000 Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:10:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Workflow-Foundation-API-Usability-Lab-Video--Part-2#c632689098490000000 Gberg Re: Windows Workflow Foundation API Usability Lab Video – Part 2
WOW!! This was really interesting. Please post more (I think there's more than the part2 this specific test?) usability tests for APIs...specially the Avalon stuff... some of the devs here are really into Avalon and going over these also helps us on which things we aren't thinking right. It would be awesom if the tests and activities are made public, but oh well that's far from happening right Smiley ?

Anyways, this was intersting. I never thought APIs need these kinds of tests, but going by the feedback the PMs/Leads had and types of things you can find out (like that classic help file issue the participant had) these are well worth every penny!

Looking forward to more of these ....

And did I say Excellent? Excellent!

And thank you

posted by keeron

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Workflow-Foundation-API-Usability-Lab-Video--Part-2#c632689269890000000 Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:56:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Workflow-Foundation-API-Usability-Lab-Video--Part-2#c632689269890000000 keeron Re: Windows Workflow Foundation API Usability Lab Video – Part 2
If these tests or hands-on labs from the PDCs (some are public though) are made available, and then video dicussions about the APIs and going really deep with white board explanations (like Chirs Anderson going deep in Avalon Smiley ) would be cool!

Keep the workflow stuff coming... that concept is hard to grasp at first but as you learn more, you just keep saying to yourself "Gosh! I can do this better using WF" or just getting the basic concepts of WF.

posted by keeron

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Workflow-Foundation-API-Usability-Lab-Video--Part-2#c632689271650000000 Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:59:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Workflow-Foundation-API-Usability-Lab-Video--Part-2#c632689271650000000 keeron Re: Windows Workflow Foundation API Usability Lab Video – Part 2 C

posted by Charles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Workflow-Foundation-API-Usability-Lab-Video--Part-2#c632689302270000000 Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:50:27 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Workflow-Foundation-API-Usability-Lab-Video--Part-2#c632689302270000000 Charles Re: Windows Workflow Foundation API Usability Lab Video – Part 2 I would love to see more stuff like this. Big Smile

posted by Darcey

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Workflow-Foundation-API-Usability-Lab-Video--Part-2#c632689420200000000 Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:07:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Workflow-Foundation-API-Usability-Lab-Video--Part-2#c632689420200000000 Darcey Re: Windows Workflow Foundation API Usability Lab Video – Part 2 Very interesting to watch.  I recently watched another video about using Predictive Fetch with Ajax in web forms and watching this video brought it to mind.

I think Microsoft could go a long way into enhancing the intellisense with predictive fetch and it sure would have helped in this case.

Another observation I made was when the poor guy had to search through the documentation as we all have done, and there is just this overwhelming amount of data to parse.  Maybe MS can use the predictive fetch to draw an order of probability for what the user is looking for based upon the subjects he has highlighted in the search results pane!  Now that would be the next level of intelligent programming!Smiley

posted by The Schickster

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Workflow-Foundation-API-Usability-Lab-Video--Part-2#c633014973380000000 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:15:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Workflow-Foundation-API-Usability-Lab-Video--Part-2#c633014973380000000 The Schickster