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)

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Getting Caught With Your Web Site Usability Zipper Wide Open

More challenging views about Nielsen's recent article ...

I purposely don't read every Alertbox article shipped off to the Internet by Jakob Nielsen, because his commandments are not specifically business or requirements-based per project kind of advice.

My good friend and co-Administrator at Cre8asiteForums, Bill Slawski, illustrates how beautifully many of the most popular blogs do indeed break a rule or three, from the latest "Top 10 Mistakes" list produced for our reading arousal from Mr. Nielsen.

In Does your blog pass the Jakob Nielsen test?, jumping directly to Bill's scorecard post, Bill takes each of the 10 blogging design "mistakes" from the latest Alertbox list and does some checking around for validation of proof. Here is one of the examples:

JNQuote:
Descriptive headlines are especially important for representing your weblog in search engines, newsfeeds (RSS), and other external environments. In those contexts, users often see only the headline and use it to determine whether to click into the full posting."   continued ...   (Via )

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