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)

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Nokia: Gap in assumption and use of tech

Useability is in the eye of the beholder ...

"Nokia said Wednesday that there is still a disparity between perceived use and actual use of mobile technology.

In its study entitled "State of Workforce Mobility," which surveyed 6,000 corporate executives in the United States, Germany and China from January to April of this year, Nokia found that those at larger companies "have not come to fully recognize the extent to which their employees utilize mobile technology."

At the same time, employees at large corporations are making far greater use of mobile phones and laptops than their bosses realize, Nokia said."   continued ...   (Via PhysOrg)

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

Nokia Mobile.

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