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 01, 2005

Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design

Jakob Nielsen's offers a nice review of his past writings on his 20th year of writing about usability ...

"It seems like I wrote "Alertbox Five Years Retrospective" just yesterday, but another five years have passed. Since writing my first column in June 1995, I've published 247 columns comprising almost 300,000 words. That's a lot of writing and a lot of content to give away on the Internet. Has it been worth the effort?" continued ... (Via Alertbox)

Nielsen's Review

Nielsens's most frequently read article has been the 'Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design' ...

"The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be.

Since my first attempt in 1996, I have compiled many top-10 lists of the biggest mistakes in Web design. See links to all these lists at the bottom of this article. This article presents the highlights: the very worst mistakes of Web design. (Updated 2004.) " continued ... (Via Alertbox)

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

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