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)

Friday, September 02, 2005

Phones For Grown Ups

As some cell phones have gone to a "simplicity" model, Eatoni Mail provides ease of input ...

"As phone keypads and screen sizes get smaller, many people find them increasingly hard to read and use. Now Eatoni Mail introduces large type and a simple text-entry software solution on BREW to simplify the phone experience.

Eatoni Mail, from software developer Eatoni Ergonomics, simplifies the sending and reading of email on a mobile phone by reducing the number of keystrokes used to type text on a telephone keypad. It can also instantly increase the font size of words appearing on the phone’s screen to a 24 points – the same font size used by many large-print newspaper and book editions -- eliminating the chore of attempting to read the small print usually associated with text on phones.

“Eatoni’s LetterWise is a modeless, ‘what you see is what you get’ text entry system that is even simpler than multi-tap,” Gutowitz said. “LetterWise needs about half as many keystrokes as regular multi-tap. With LetterWise it’s easy to enter proper names, URL’s, slang and unconventional language on a cell phone or other handheld device.”   continued ...   (Via 160 Characters)

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

Letterwise enabled phone.

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