Evan continues his Tablet PC Field Trials History and describes an important lesson about using models and personalities - and he doesn't mean fashion.

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Evan posted Tablet PC Field Trials 3.1, jokingly saying he isn't using Windows versioning conventions.

No this isn't a Windows versioning scheme :-)

Rather I'm using this opportunity to answer some questions:

Lora writes:

Did they go back and field test the revised Journal?

Yes. Next Question.

How much did the concurrent changes in the industry impact the design? Did the elapsed time between the first trial and released product impact how people used the product and their expectations also?

Also Yes.

Okay now for the non-flip analysis/answers. We did in fact conduct 2 additional field trials after the one that I've been blogging about. Both of these were run by my direct reports at the time. One looked specifically at the initial experience and the changes in Journal. The other looked at pre-production real OEM hardware (a convertible) and the effect that Tablet had on the institutional culture and usage over a 9 month - 1 year period. Maybe I'll blog a little about these in the future, but my personal knowledge was quite a bit less since I was only managing the people running the project and not supervising the day to day workings of the projects.

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