StarOffice Calc v. MS Excel: - SVN
StarOffice Calc v. MS Excel: - SVN
StarOffice Calc v. MS Excel: - SVN
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<strong>StarOffice</strong> <strong>Calc</strong> Usability Evaluation<br />
arrow highlight the drawing menu icon. People who failed to complete this task did so because<br />
they never did locate the drawing tools.<br />
Figure 5.<br />
Drawing Functions in <strong>StarOffice</strong> <strong>Calc</strong><br />
It should be noted that once participants found the drawing toolbar in <strong>StarOffice</strong> <strong>Calc</strong>, they did not<br />
have too many further problems in creating and coloring their shape. They especially liked the way<br />
that text can be added to a shape by double-clicking (in <strong>Excel</strong>, users have to right-click and then<br />
choose an option from the menu).<br />
They also found the shape color very easily. The <strong>StarOffice</strong> <strong>Calc</strong> interface does an especially nice<br />
job of using people’s visual abilities to quickly indicate where the color can be changed. Figure 6<br />
shows a blue circle that a user has just drawn; the color-change menu shows the same bright<br />
shade of blue, thus associating the shape and the color-change menu together in the user’s eye.<br />
Despite these nicely-designed features, though, the time spent locating the shape menu in the first<br />
place seemed to influence people to rate the task as more difficult.<br />
Eklund, Feldman, and Trombley, 12/11/2001 22 of 54
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