Comparação da usabilidade do gimp e do photoshop a partir dos métodos percurso cognitivo e PURE

Abstract

Good interaction within systems has long ceased to be seen or understood only as: screens with well-adjusted proportions; harmonic colors and bold designs, expanding to how the user within this system interacts, how he learns, his difficulties due to problems within the interface and whether its handling is efficient. The concept of usability is increasingly present within the systems, ceasing to be something optional and becoming routine and being considered a quality attribute that, if present within the systems, will provide an advantage, expanding its use. Within this context, this work has the general objective of comparatively analyzing the usability of a free software Gimp and its non-free competitor Photoshop through the Cognitive Path and PURE evaluation methods. To carry out the Cognitive Route and PURE evaluation methods, three specialists and a user who fit the specified profile were invited. As a result, the fact that both systems had different licenses did not benefit one more than the other, that is, in the end, the fact that one was free and the other did not bring any more advantage to one than the other.