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, June 24, 2005

Is it lazy design or stupid management decisions?

And I love to wait for PDF pages to load - even with broadband ...

"Triggered by Jakob Nielsen's reference to "lazy, stupid and evil design" in Lazy, stupid and evil design, a thread at Cre8asiteforums on the topic zeros in on the use of PDF files, when used in place of HTML pages.

The consensus is that Jakob Nielsen is correct about his rant: "Putting up PDF files is another example: "it's the lazy way out."

Someone in the thread pointed out that web developers are not to blame. Rather, it's the situation. When a company has one person handling all things related to building, marketing and maintaining the web site, there's bound to be shortcuts made."   continued ...   (Via Cre8pc)

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


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