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)

Sunday, October 23, 2005

A Drag & Drop Web Browser OS

Insight in to possible UI's for a browser-based OS ...

"Recent speculation about Web-based operating systems and the release of Flock (currently touted as the first Web 2.0 browser) got me thinking about what a Web browser-based operating system might look like. How could companies like Yahoo! and Google integrate their diverse product suites, which include Maps, Local Directories, Instant Messaging, Email, Calendars, Blogs, News, and more?

What stuck out for me was the ability to easily move content between services. For example, selecting and dragging text or images from a Web page directly into a blog post, an instant message conversation, or an email or perhaps dragging a point on a map to a calendar or directly into an email for easily accessible directions. This type of simplified sharing between Web services is illustrated in the following screen shots. I used LukeW Web OS to remain neutral but one could easily imagine Google OS, Yahoo! OS, or Mozilla OS."   continued ...   (Via Functioning Form)

Web-based Operating System - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Web-based Operating System.

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