Usability Quote of the Day

May 23, 2012

There's something very odd going on here. If designers made completely unrealistic assumptions about the physical world when designing technology, then we would blame them (and likely sue them) for technical incompetence. Yet when they make grossly unrealistic assumptions about human nature... we don't blame the designers, we blame the unfortunate people who are just trying to do what the design requires. -- Kim Vicente, The Human Factor, p. 45.    (via interaction-design.org)

Friday, February 25, 2005

X Files.

" X-Keys. Easier data input via an add-on macro keypad for your PC. £79.95. Fingerlicious, but a tad expensive?

Reduce the number of key strokes you would normally use through the programmable 16 key keypad:- e.g. assign common strings of keystrokes, commonly used addresses or footers and launch applications. The programmable 16 key keypad can hold strings of button presses of up to 900 characters long. Mouse and game pad functions may also be assigned to the pad. The 16 keys give you one button access to 30 pre-programmed shortcuts, functions, and codes"

The Programmable 16 key keypad (or X-Keys stick) enhances productivity through its user definable buttons by allowing commonly used strings of keystrokes to be assigned to a single hot key.

The buttons may be set to perform a variety of functions. For example commands such as Copy (Ctrl+C), Paste (Ctrl+V) or Shutdown (Ctrl + Alt + Del).

X-Key - User Interface Design - Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) - Ergonomics

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