Usability Quote of the Day

July 4, 2008

The high-tech industry has inadvertently put programmers and engineers in charge, so their hard-to-use engineering culture dominates. Despite appearances, business executives are simply not the ones in control of the high-tech industry. It is the engineers who are running the show. In our rush to accept the many benefits of the silicon chip, we have abdicated our responsibilities. We have let the inmates run the asylum. -- Alan Cooper, The Inmates are Running the Asylum, p. 15.   (via interaction-design.org)
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Monday, January 31, 2005

Cognitive bandwidth is like dial-up

"A couple days ago I got an email from Steve Krug, author of the wonderful web usability book Don't Make Me Think, which is in my Top Ten Computer Books list on Bookpool.com."

I thought about how our books could have been named just the opposite of his--DO Make Me Think, since much of our approach is about how to get learners to process new information more deeply. In other words, we work hard to make people think.

But then I realized that both his book and our approach could have been named:

Don't make me think about the wrong things ...

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