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)

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Top design guru Jakob Nielsen on blogs...

I’ve been trying to convince Jakob Nielsen, (Nielsen Norman Group) the uber uber usability guru to run a study on the design issues around blogs.

Mr Nielsen said that there was nobody to fund the study, especially bloggers. I said he could create a lot of public good by helping to improve blogs because they are probably the most common content publication on the web, with tens of millions of blogs, yet no usability study.

This is a way to advise millions of bloggers on best practices and help a lot of people navigate through large amounts of content. He said there were many things that were common to blogs and any other online publishing format.

There are basic questions I’d like to know, for example:

Q: Is it better to let people click down the page or click to a new page for continued stories? (Via Silicon Valley Watcher)

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



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