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 17, 2005

New Google service searches sites designed for mobile devices

A good small screen interface ...

"So of course Google SMS search delivers regular search results to your cellphone in text-based format, but the new service they’ve just rolled out delivers search results specifically from websites formatted for mobile devices. This means that the results you get back from your searches will actually be viewable on your cellphone or handheld in a way that isn’t almost completely useless. It should also prove to be an interesting method for discovering which sites have specifically formatted mobile versions, perhaps even enabling some actual surfing on your cellphone without tears. To use it, just go to Google’s regular home page, enter your query and choose “Mobile Web (Beta)” (beta is the new black, you know) as your search option. Also, at least so far, it’s ad free."   continued ...   (Via Engadget)

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

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