Usability Quote of the Day

October 11, 2008

Despite the enormous outward success of personal computers, the daily experience of using computers far too often is still fraught with difficulty, pain, and barriers for most people.... The lack of usability of software and the poor design of programs are the secret shame of the industry -- Mitchell Kapor, From Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, Software Design Manifesto, 1996   (via interaction-design.org)
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Friday, January 28, 2005

Liquid Information vs Remembrance Augmentation

"Consider the concept of Liquid Information. Its a very simple idea .... index all the words and phrases in a body of text, and then allows you to click through to other sources. Producing what they call deep legibility. Its something I do manually already, highlighting a word or phrase and searching with a bookmarklet. This takes that idea a step forward. In their CNN demo you hover over any word and are given a menu as to how to use it. It relates also to the broad Remembrance Augmentation concept, previously discussed, which seeks to automate the same kind of process by simply going ahead and searching for any non-noise thing on the screen. The latter is ideal in that you dont have to take the initiative, but it requires screen real estate and some intelligence to choose words and phrases."

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