As part of our outreachy internship program on the GNOME Community Udo Ijibike and Tamnjong Larry (myself) under the guide of our mentors Allan Day and Aryan Kaushik conducted usability tests to evaluate the user experience across three media applications: Decibels (Audio Player), Loupe (Image Viewer), and Showtime (Video Player). Our goal was to identify areas for improvement and enhance the overall usability of these applications to better align with users’ natural workflows.

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For this study, we recruited five participants from across the world who were GNOME users but had not used any of the media apps before the study. The participants were from diverse works of life from software developers, students, and a medical doctor, just people who use GNOME regularly. The participants were recruited through social media posts on GNOME’s official channels on Twitter and Mastodon.