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)

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Microsoft Unveils Expression Family of Designer Tools

Microsoft offering new tools for developing better User Interface Designs ...

"Today at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 2005 (PDC05), Eric Rudder, senior vice president, Servers and Tools at Microsoft Corp, introduced Microsoft(R) Expression, a family of professional tools for the design and production of enhanced user experiences and rich content for the web and Windows Vista(TM) platform. The announced products and their code names are Expression code-named "Acrylic Graphic Designer", a painting, illustration and effects tool for creating graphic designs; Expression code- named "Sparkle Interactive Designer", a user-interface design tool for modern application development using the Windows(R) Presentation Foundation; and Expression code-named "Quartz Web Designer", a layout and design tool for creating websites.

Rudder stressed that the new tools portfolio, paired with the Windows Presentation Foundation, a powerful platform-level presentation and display engine, will help drive down the cost and effort associated with building richer, more compelling and exciting applications with unique differentiated capabilities."   continued ...   (Via Belga)

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

Microsoft Expression Acrylic Graphic Designer.

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