Usability In The News

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)

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Contact your Pilot

Whoa, you have to see the larger image ...

"From Contact Your Client we see software for Contact Management with a User Interface for entering a new Contact that looks more intimidating than a 747 Flight Simulator.

I took a deep breath and tried to use it.. but my plane crashed shortly after takeoff.

This is the very essence of a deductive user interface as opposed to an inductive user interface. You sort of have to poke about and experiment to work out what’s going on." continued ... (Via UI Hall of Shame)

Contact Your Client - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics