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)

Monday, August 08, 2005

A Difference of Design

A comparison of design vs. business approach to new product design ...

"As the fervor of harnessing “design thinking” for strategic advantage and innovation continues, more firms are looking to reinvent themselves by becoming design-focused. In order to better define what this type of change actually entails, I’ve tried to succinctly outline how design processes differ from traditional business processes. In addition to my thoughts, points from Tim Brown’s Strategy by Design, Roger L. Martin’s Creativity Runs Deep, and Richard Florida’s Rise of the Creative Class are embedded within the following comparison."   continued ...   (Via Functioning Form)

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

Design thinking approach.

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