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)
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Longhorn - A Tortured User Interface

As more and more screenshots and previews of the forthcoming Longhorn are released, I cannot help but wonder what has happened to it’s user interface. Windows XP always served me well. It was easy to find my way around, and everything seemed to be in the correct place. I came across the screenshot this morning, from the new Windows Explorer in Longhorn:

Longhorn - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics


I can’t help feeling that somewhere down the line, the Microsoft interface design team lost their way. Let’s take it in stages:

* Colour
* Search Bar
* What’s New?

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