Usability Quote of the Day

October 11, 2008

Despite the enormous outward success of personal computers, the daily experience of using computers far too often is still fraught with difficulty, pain, and barriers for most people.... The lack of usability of software and the poor design of programs are the secret shame of the industry -- Mitchell Kapor, From Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, Software Design Manifesto, 1996   (via interaction-design.org)
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Monday, June 13, 2005

API Usability: Guidelines to improve your code ease of use - Design and Strategy

A detailed paper on on application programming interface (API) Usability ...

"High usability is becoming increasingly important for a product to succeed. People want technology that is easy to learn and use: just a lot of functionalities are no more sufficient. Because the usability concepts are based on the human psychology, they can be applied to the design of all interfaces between humans and machines. In the recent years, the software engineering field has successfully adopted these concepts. One man who has highly contributed to the promotion of software usability is Jef Raskin. He has acknowledged the importance of usable software since a long time and has applied the usability concepts to design the first commercially successful computer to use a graphical user interface (GUI). Since then, usability research results have provided many hints to help software developers designing better GUI."   continued ...   (Via The Code Project)

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

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