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)

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Microsoft Will Drop 'My' Prefix for Longhorn

The removal of "My" will also permit better indexing, rather than the usual my, my, my ...

"If you are a Microsoft user, there's a big change coming in Longhorn -- the code name for the next MS operating system: the "My" prefix is disappearing.

Microsoft users have become used to the "My Music," "My Pictures," and other "My" folders, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, reported. Those windows folders will still be yours -- but they won't keep hitting you over the head with that terminology.

The "My" prefix was apparently an attempt to create a personal connection between people and their computers at a time when the idea of using a computer might have been forbidding." continued ... (Via Technology News)

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

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