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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Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Sony’s designer mouse

Maybe Sony knows something about ergonomics that the rest of us don’t, but the VGP-UMS50, their new designer optical mouse that apparently was designed for something other than the human hand. (Via Engadget)

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

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