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Usability Quote of the Day

February 6, 2012

The prevailing computer-human interaction (CHI) model of interface design has been partly responsible for the current state of the desktop computer. The breakthrough on which the field emerged was the admission of psychological principles. The resulting graphical user interface has been the focus of the field of computer-human interaction for nearly 20 years. This interface is a virtual control panel whose design has remained quite technology-centered. -- Malcolm McCullough, Digital Ground, 2004 (via interaction-design.org)

Friday, June 10, 2005

A new look at desktop user interface design

Some interesting new ideas for a UI ...

"Mezzo User Interface

Below are my mock ups of the Mezzo UI. It is based on my years of slight but definiate torture by desktop operating systems and increasingly complex user interfaces." continued ... (Via Jason Spisak)

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