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, July 01, 2005

More on Yahoo's MyWeb2.0

Tagging is reaching the big time ...

"One of the most oft-asked questions in search is "what's next." Yahoo hopes that My Web 2.0 is an answer - according to the folks who created it, My Web is an entirely new approach to relevance based on social inputs such as your group, your search history, and your own personally tagged webspace (which I've been calling the PersonalWeb for sometime).

Yahoo has dubbed the secret sauce driving relevance in My Web "MyRank," and it seems to be Yahoo first truly focused effort to steal some of Google's PageRank mojo.

My Web 2.0, a new version of the company's search engine that will harness the collective power of small groups of Web surfers to improve the quality of search results."   continued ...   (Via John Battelle)

Yahoo Web 2.0 - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

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