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

Graphic design plays a minor role on the Web

The limited role of graphics in web-based user interface design ...

"The best websites are highly functional. They are task-focused. Graphic design has an important, though limited role. Don’t try and force the Web to be what it’s not.

Have you noticed the demise of the Flash intro? A couple of years ago, they were everywhere. I have asked thousands of people in some 35 countries what they do when they see a Flash intro. “Skip intro” is the universal reply.

A Flash intro is a fourth-rate attempt at a TV ad by people who won’t get a chance to design real TV ads. They were invented by graphic designers desperate to turn the Web into TV, and who wanted to look cool and win design awards."   continued ...   (Via Gerry McGovern)

Flash Introduction - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Flash Introduction.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

yeah man...lets just stick to text based sites forever...who cares about progression.

5:54 PM  

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