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)

Friday, May 27, 2005

Quick Review of GUI Design Studio

"Caretta Software finally released their GUI Design Studio software last week and I've been trying it out.

In a nutshell, it lets you draw application windows and dialogs then connect them together to create a workflow design and run it all in a simulator as if it was a working application. It doesn't use any scripting or coding. Instead, everything is done using graphical objects and connection arrows.

All the control widgets (they call them 'elements') are in different categories in a side palette from where you drag and drop them onto designs. This is similar to typical drawing programs like Visio but what's different here is that instead of being small icons, all the controls are represented by full sized versions. They've also provided multiple buttons and checkboxes in different states, etc. to save time having to edit generic versions." (Via Surfer Monkey's Brain)

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

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