Usability In The News

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)

Sunday, June 12, 2005

Website Content & Usability

These are very basic rules but well worth remembering ...

Writing for the web is totally different to writing for printed matter. We tend to scan content on the web hunting for the information we’re after, as opposed to reading word-for-word. As a result of this, there are certain guidelines you should be sure to follow when writing copy for your website:

1. Use clear and simple language
2. Limit each paragraph to one idea
3. Front-load content
4. And several more." continued ... (Via WebCredible)

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