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)

Thursday, September 29, 2005

More Web 2.0 Questions

Some good questions raised about Web 2.0 ...

"The explosive discussion about the definition of Web 2.0 raises more questions than it answers. That’s a good thing! We’re learning here. One facet of this discussion, however, that I would like to see more of is the value of Web 2.0 for developers. I assume more and more developers are hearing about Web 2.0 every day, but it’s not clear what in it for them. It’s one thing to look at Amazon and say “they’re creating a really powerful platform”. It’s another to ask “what can I learn from Amazon that helps me build better applications?”.

Defining Web 2.0 is fun, building it is hard. So while we’re still defining it I’m going to add some more developer-centered questions to the mix.

Note that users = people/customers/humans/folks/prosumers/etc. (whichever you prefer)

1. How do my users value content?
2. How do my users share content with others?
3. Who do they share content with?"   continued ...   (Via Bokardo)

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

Amazon Web 2.0.

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