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 08, 2005

IBM Keyboards - The Odyssey Continues

This is a detailed article about the best touch and feel keyboard. You can still buy them ...

"Regular readers, and numerous Googlers, will know that I've a certain affection for buckling spring keyboards. Primarily IBM buckling spring keyboards.

That's not because the IBMs have some magic key layout recipe nobody else can match (though some zealots are of that opinion; terrible and bloody have been the battles between the Function Keys To The Leftists and the Death To The L-Shaped Enter Keyites), but simply because they're easier to find than other keyboards that use the same super-durable, nice-feeling, alarmingly loud keyswitches.

IBM (or, you know, Lenovo, or whoever) don't make buckling spring keyboards any more. They sell various keyboards that use cheaper, quieter keyswitches that don't last nearly as long or provide nearly as pleasant a key-feel, but there's no real difference between current IBM-branded 'boards and any number of other mainstream offerings."   continued ...   (Via Dan's Data)

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



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