Usability Quote of the Day

February 9, 2012

Most people who encounter computer-based automation at work do not choose the software with which they work, and have comparatively little control over when and how they do what they do. For them, the use of computers can be an oppressive experience, rather than a liberating one. -- Sarah Kuhn, Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, 1996    (via interaction-design.org)

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Microsoft Office 12 to offer better usability to users

Better usability for one of the most used applications is welcome news ...

"World’s largest software company Microsoft highlighted the new features in their upcoming update to their upcoming new office suite Microsoft Office 12. This latest update would bring a new interface for using the various tools available in the office suite and would focus on the task being done at that moment.

The office applications would try to anticipate the tools user would require at a given time and give them preference over the other existing options available on the screen. For many years now, users have been complaining that the company has failed to deliver anything worthwhile in their upgrades while charging a bomb for the upgrades.

With their latest version, the company expects that the users would find the new usability features handy and very luring to upgrade to the latest editions. The applications would now automatically pops up what it thinks are the most relevant commands based on what the user is doing in his documents or presentations making it easier for him to make the best use of the features available."   continued ...   (Via Software Journal)

Microsoft Office 12 - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Microsoft Office 12.

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