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)

Monday, June 06, 2005

Design

An excellent series of articles on design and UI ...

"The most compelling design solutions are ones that are simple, natural to use, and completely in tune with users' needs and experiences. Achieving these solutions in the design of technology products and e-business applications requires building a multi-disciplinary team, tapping resources such as published research, guidelines, standards, and involving users throughout the design process. Here we present a number of processes and provide resources for achieving compelling designs.
  • Design concepts
  • Web guidelines
  • Style guidelines
  • Exploratory UI design
  • And More
"   continued ...   (Via IBM Ease of Use)

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



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