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)

Monday, September 12, 2005

FEMA Foible

Adding salt to the wound ...

"Flood victims who want to apply online for FEMA aid are welcome to do so—assuming they’re running the latest Microsoft browser.

The FEMA site invites people to create an account and fill in an application for aid. Unfortunately, it requires users to have Internet Explorer 6.0. That excludes anyone running a non-Windows operating system such as Linux or Macintosh OS X or who decided to forego IE for other popular browsers such as Firefox or Opera." continued ... (Via CIO)

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