Shuttleworth: Don’t Give Up the Linux Desktop

From a user-experience perspective, for instance, he said that Linux’s design has been lacking. To that end, Shuttleworth noted that Ubuntu has its own user-experience team that conducts testing with regular people to see how they use software.

But Shuttleworth would like to see the user-experience effort extend beyond Ubuntu.

During his keynote, he extended an invitation to any open source application to submit their software for testing by user-experience experts. The sessions would be recorded for posterity, and the developer would not be able to interact with the user.

“If the developer is in the room, they have to say nothing. It’s the shut the f— up protocol,” Shuttleworth said. “You sit and watch someone struggle with the software that you’ve so lovingly produced.”

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