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)

Monday, September 19, 2005

Windows MCE on Vista

A new interface design featuring tanslucent everything ...

"This came out last week, but it’s still interesting enough to take a peek at. You’re looking at a sample of Windows Media Center Edition on Visita. MS is taking the whole “translucent bezel” idea to its obvious conclusion: “translucent everything.” Sure, you can do it, guys, but SHOULD you do it.

I played a bit more with Vista last week and saw some of the good and bad sides of the new OS. Graphically, OSX wins hands down. In terms of productivity, however, IE 7 and Office 12 are looking pretty hot. I’m not going to switch back any time soon, but it’s nice to know I have a choice."   continued ...   (Via Gizmodo)

MCE on Vista - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Transulcent all the way.

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