Summary:How we did usability testing and what usability problems we discovered since we started to focus on it. For those who don’t know what usability is, I recommend reading Jakob Nielsen’s Introduction to Usability. Simply put: usability is a measurement for how easy user interfaces is to use. Usability Testing is something every software development company should study and do well. I have to admit that we had absolutely no clue how to do it…
We just deployed a small update, with improved sharing dialog and better chat notification. The sharing dialog: The new dialog has a prefiled combobox (with autocomplete) for the known resources/colleagues. It also shows a simpler way of choosing rights. If you need to share with multiple users on the same time you still have the “Resources” button on the bottom which will allow the selection and addition of more then one collaborator. We also updated…
Although we were quiet the last few weeks, it doesn’t mean that we didn’t work hard on Mindomo. Today we updated our site with the latest changes and bug fixes. Here is a short list of what’s new: – Every user has a profile page where information about the user and it’s maps are listed – Users may comment on public maps – We added two additional properties for maps Language and Tags. – The…
Happy New Year Everyone ! Looking back at 2008: It was a great year for us at Mindomo. We grew more than 100% in the last year, we rolled out several new features (see: our changelog ) so everything is looking good :). What’s new in 2009? The first goodies this year are: floating topics, adding main topics with double click and find-replace functionality. Floating topics: This was one of the most requested features. With…
This weekend we updated our site and released our latest update. This update comes with true PDF export, which means that the mind map is exported graphically into a PDF document. The previous implementation just exported the contents of the mindomo map. Exporting to PDF gives you a huge advantage if you want to share your mindmaps with others who are offline and who don’t know anything about mindmapping software or mindomo. It also allows…