Usability Quote of the Day

January 6, 2009

The prevailing computer-human interaction (CHI) model of interface design has been partly responsible for the current state of the desktop computer. The breakthrough on which the field emerged was the admission of psychological principles. The resulting graphical user interface has been the focus of the field of computer-human interaction for nearly 20 years. This interface is a virtual control panel whose design has remained quite technology-centered. -- Malcolm McCullough, Digital Ground, 2004   (via interaction-design.org)
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Sunday, January 16, 2005

Free/Libre/Open Source Usability Sprint

"San Francisco, California, 18-20 February 2005

Aspiration and Blue Oxen Associates will host a Software Usability Sprint at J. Fairchild in San Francisco, California from February 18-20, 2005. The event will bring together a diverse group of programmers, usability experts, project managers, and users to discuss methodologies for improving the usability of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and to apply those processes towards specific software projects.

We invite developers working on a range of open source projects, usability experts from both academia and industry, and users of specific nonprofit open source projects to join us for this unique and valuable gathering."

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