JupyterLab Heuristic Evaluation

[grey280]

I’m part of a group from UC Irvine, working on designing a new file browser experience. As part of this work, we’ve been doing a lot of research on the current state of JupyterLab.
While it’s mostly focused on the file browsing/managing experience, the heuristic evaluation we’ve completed could be of some use to the community, so we’re sharing it here.

At the moment, I’m linking to this as stored in my personal .github.io repo, for lack of a better place, but are hoping @tgeorgeux can help us get this stored somewhere more appropriate/permanent for use by the Jupyter community.

Here’s hoping this is helpful, and thank you for your time.

Oh, and for reference, the group consists of @jabumeri, @JDLEarley, @emilythefan, @Nastraughn, and myself.

[blink1073]

Thank you very much for this work @grey280, @jabumeri, @JDLEarley, @emilythefan, and @Nastraughn! These type of insights are invaluable to improve our product.

Can you please give the output of jupyter labextension list to give the version of JupyterLab and any installed extensions used in the analysis?

[blink1073]

And I use "our" in "our product" here to include you as well, this is a community project after all 😉.

[grey280]

Been learning to use conda while we're doing this; on my machine, I was mostly using:

JupyterLab v2.1.0
Known labextensions:
   app dir: /Users/greypatterson/opt/miniconda3/envs/jupyter-fs/share/jupyter/lab
        jupyterlab_filetree v0.2.2  enabled  OK
        multicontentsmanager v0.0.1  enabled  OK

but did occasionally switch to the 'base' state, which was just:

JupyterLab v2.1.0
No installed extensions

@jabumeri, @JDLEarley, I believe you two contributed most of the screenshots, what do your setups look like?

[JDLEarley]

Thank you @blink1073! We are happy to be a part of this project and look forward to assisting the community. I was running JuptyerLab 2.1.0 with no extensions.

[jabumeri]

Yes, thank you @blink1073! Your excitement about our work thus far is encouraging and to echo Justin, we're excited to be part of this project.
Here is my output when running jupyter labextension list:

JupyterLab v2.1.0
Known labextensions:
   app dir: /Users/jabumeri/opt/miniconda3/share/jupyter/lab
        jupyterlab_filetree v0.2.2  enabled  OK
        multicontentsmanager v0.0.1  enabled  OK

I have primarily been running JupyterLab with the enable extensions and have not switched to the base version like Grey.

[blink1073]

Thanks @grey280, @JDLEarley, @jabumeri. The filetree extension was what I was most interested in, since we may decide to replace the stock filebrowser with that one and this feedback can help guide that decision.