Usability Quote of the Day

February 9, 2012

Most people who encounter computer-based automation at work do not choose the software with which they work, and have comparatively little control over when and how they do what they do. For them, the use of computers can be an oppressive experience, rather than a liberating one. -- Sarah Kuhn, Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, 1996    (via interaction-design.org)

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

A guide to left-handed computing

There are eight chances in nine that you are right-handed, and if you are, you will probably never have considered the problems faced by the one in nine of computer users who are left-handed.

So imagine that the vast majority of products you use with your computer, from the mouse and keyboard to the software, have been developed with somebody else in mind; a right-handed somebody else.

Take a quick look at the set-up of a typical PC and the problems faced by left-handed users become a little clearer. (Via vnunet)

Left hand mouse - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics


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