Posted: Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at 8:13 pm. Filed in WordPress.
Tags: 2.5, crayhorse, usability
Testing 1, 2, 3
Over the summer WordPress 2.5 and a prototype called Crazyhorse underwent third-party usability testing, which led to the design changes that will be coming in 2.7. Half of the test participants were wordpress.com users just like you! If you’re interested in the process behind the testing or want to read the report, head on over to the development blog and read all about it.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Cool.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
looks awesome, can’t wait.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Awesome!
October 30th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
kool, i shall, lol
x
October 30th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
i hope it will be percebtibly different from current version
November 4th, 2008 at 12:28 am
2.7 is a complete redesign with a new navigation structure, new layout and all new features.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Looking forward to the new release!
October 30th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I’m ready!
October 30th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Felicitaciones
October 30th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Awsome!
Tom.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
that is great !!!
October 30th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
bring it on!
maybe this explains the odd links coming in too–i was thinking it was early for trick or treat–wasn’t sure whether it was a trick or a treat!
November 4th, 2008 at 12:30 am
There wouldn’t have been any strange link stuff going on as a result of our testing or the 2.7 redesign, since it has not yet been ported to wordpress.com. It’s still being beta tested by people with self-hosting wordpress.org blogs.
October 30th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
I’ve been looking forward to this.
October 30th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Neatest invention since toilet paper on a roll.
October 30th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
i cant wait til 2.7 comes out!
October 30th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Looking forward to it
October 30th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
WordPress is the best!
October 30th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Thanks for that.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:35 am
testing testing…
(^_^)v
October 31st, 2008 at 12:50 am
cool cant wait
October 31st, 2008 at 1:17 am
Cool!
October 31st, 2008 at 1:31 am
WP Rocks…!!! can’t wait till 2.7…
October 31st, 2008 at 2:04 am
hehe that’s the name of my blog, just that it is in spanish. Thank you guys, you’re the best
October 31st, 2008 at 2:06 am
look really good. well done wordpress
October 31st, 2008 at 2:29 am
Cool!!!
October 31st, 2008 at 2:44 am
¡Muy bien!
October 31st, 2008 at 3:36 am
OMG!!! u rocks
October 31st, 2008 at 3:53 am
how great it is
October 31st, 2008 at 4:17 am
Hey thanks!
October 31st, 2008 at 5:02 am
wow Great
October 31st, 2008 at 5:17 am
that’s pretty awesome, well done again
October 31st, 2008 at 5:24 am
get ready
October 31st, 2008 at 5:28 am
So looking forward to this one
October 31st, 2008 at 5:33 am
Wow, it’s nice to see you guys at last leave the design to the professionals
(no offense to the people who designed 2.5 interface)
October 31st, 2008 at 5:50 am
That rox!! : )
October 31st, 2008 at 6:09 am
great!
October 31st, 2008 at 6:33 am
Can’t wait till 2.7!!!!
October 31st, 2008 at 7:07 am
When I get real old, my children will be using WordPress 5.43, and they’ll have a multi-blog network, each blog representing a piece of their personality, and representations of their ego and id. They will combine into a different interface of Facebook, where everyone can define their friends by befriending particular personalities, throwing away the sum of the person at will.
And, one of my sons will come up to me and show me a video of neo-plode rock, which is a combination of 60’s music, 90’s R&B, Bjork ethereal-like backgrounds, with a lot of reverb’d cowbells and whistles and audio snippets of game show melodies in the 20th century. He will show me his ego WordPress avatar: XavierYY2012, and show me his Adobe Community Cloud widget.
I will be unsurprisingly confused, and will remark, ” Back when I was your age, we only had WordPress 2.7, and I had to change theme settings through a notepad editor.”
And he will reply,” You mean, you didn’t have uni-world-css bits? Wow Dad, you were living in the stone age.”
To The Future of WordPress!
October 31st, 2008 at 7:42 am
very cool, I’ll be waiting
October 31st, 2008 at 9:40 am
Good to know.
Finally a great software with a good interface.
Actually the only drawback wordpress had was that it had poor admin interface, now after the launch of new dashboard i think it will be a overall very good software.
My 4.5/5.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:00 am
Please, wait…
I want it…
October 31st, 2008 at 10:03 am
Veryyy goodddd
October 31st, 2008 at 10:35 am
Bring it on
October 31st, 2008 at 10:46 am
Great! I’m loving the new look.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:55 am
bellissimo
October 31st, 2008 at 11:00 am
mm, lets wait for 2.7.., great work!
October 31st, 2008 at 11:10 am
great work!
October 31st, 2008 at 11:42 am
nice
October 31st, 2008 at 11:51 am
This seems fun! thanks wordpress
October 31st, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Your’e on the go all the time, Jane. Thanks for the info.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:29 pm
good, work
October 31st, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Hello Jane,
Thank you very much for this report. It is always interesting to see reports with scientific approach to produce result.
I wonder how would these results differ if testers would be presented with different color scheme. Let’s say that instead of white-blue color scheme interface would use orange color for buttons, bright green for menus, etc.
What I’m going to is to shed some light onto the way blog readers read the blogs and how theme affects the way they concentrate on the content. This will give a lot of knowledge to theme developers, …
Thank you very much again.
November 4th, 2008 at 12:32 am
There are many excellent books out there on color theory, the use of color in web design, and the effects of color cues on usability, which would be a good resource for theme developers.
October 31st, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Thanks! Good going! Nice
October 31st, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Thank you very much for this report
October 31st, 2008 at 3:21 pm
crazyhorse, love it
October 31st, 2008 at 3:48 pm
happy new year.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
very cool, I’ll be waiting..
October 31st, 2008 at 4:54 pm
This sounds really cool.
Can’t wait!
October 31st, 2008 at 5:05 pm
WP 2.7 where are you…… cant wait
October 31st, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Lookin forward to 2.7, but will we have a feature to have the 2.6 look? I still like it, cos I saw the wireframes and still aren’t sure
November 4th, 2008 at 12:33 am
Sorry, the 2.6 design will be going away on wordpress.com when we upgrade to 2.7 in November.
October 31st, 2008 at 7:15 pm
I am All
SmiLes 
October 31st, 2008 at 7:18 pm
nice guys, go on, good work am looking forward
October 31st, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Sounds cool!
October 31st, 2008 at 9:11 pm
yeah great
October 31st, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Awesome, more advancements for wordpress, in a few years, they’ll know what you’re gonna type, and the post will already be made
October 31st, 2008 at 10:11 pm
@Person1233: Lol. That is my kind of humour.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Looks great
November 1st, 2008 at 12:53 am
Magnificent! I can’t wait for it.
November 1st, 2008 at 3:53 am
¿When more detailed statistics? visitors’ Net, visitors’ city, etc?
November 4th, 2008 at 12:25 am
The stats module is undergoing its own revision currently and will hopefully be out by the end of the year.
November 1st, 2008 at 5:07 am
very sharp and informative as usual, and happy november everyone!
November 1st, 2008 at 6:56 am
WP rocks..I am ready
November 1st, 2008 at 7:26 am
owh yeahhh!!!
November 1st, 2008 at 11:29 am
Good post writing make lighting in the brain.
November 1st, 2008 at 11:29 am
Looks great. Cool!
November 1st, 2008 at 12:01 pm
I’am ready
November 1st, 2008 at 2:57 pm
While the new interface looks nice, it’s just that – interface. Personally, I would prefer that more effort was spent on squashing bugs, improving compatibility with web standards, streamlining the publishing process – and integrating the cache into the main product than all this eye candy.
November 4th, 2008 at 12:35 am
While you may consider it “just an interface,” we’ve found that the interface is hugely involved in streamlining the publishing process. The interface update for 2.7 is also coupled with many new features to give users more control over their publishing environment. The design is a relatively small part of the development effort going into 2.7, which includes quite a number of back end features to improve performance.
November 1st, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Waiting for it, Great
November 1st, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Brilliant. ^-^
November 1st, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Looks good
November 1st, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Oh no, just as I get used to the old version!
November 2nd, 2008 at 12:23 am
kool. love it.
November 2nd, 2008 at 12:24 am
Generic comment of approval! LOL
November 2nd, 2008 at 1:26 am
another new one!
November 2nd, 2008 at 4:15 am
Awesome ^^
November 2nd, 2008 at 4:18 am
I can’t wait! Man, wordpress keeps rolling out the features!
November 2nd, 2008 at 5:23 am
Superfantastic
November 2nd, 2008 at 7:00 am
That’s another good news
November 2nd, 2008 at 7:07 am
Really looking forward to it!
November 2nd, 2008 at 7:53 am
this is very cool. Nice post
November 2nd, 2008 at 12:22 pm
when it released ?
November 4th, 2008 at 12:37 am
We’re currently in beta testing, and hope to bring 2.7 to wordpress.com sometime during the month of November.
November 2nd, 2008 at 1:35 pm
top of the line
November 2nd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
It is one step further and certainly very important
November 2nd, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Thats good!
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:39 pm
COOL!!!!!
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
awesome! Thanks!!
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:45 am
COOL can’t wait!
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:26 am
its cool….waiting for it…
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:07 am
Cool…
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:16 am
sounds good!
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:56 am
cool!
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:35 am
I don’t know how you guys keep it up. Just keep up keeping it up. I don’t know where I’d be without my weblogsite.