Usability In The News

Usability Quote of the Day

October 11, 2008

Despite the enormous outward success of personal computers, the daily experience of using computers far too often is still fraught with difficulty, pain, and barriers for most people.... The lack of usability of software and the poor design of programs are the secret shame of the industry -- Mitchell Kapor, From Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, Software Design Manifesto, 1996 (via interaction-design.org)

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Interface Design And User Experience Drive The New Google RSS Reader Aggregator

New Google feed reader offeres a great UI with some interesting new display features ...

"Google has finally launched its own Web-based RSS Reader during last week Web 2.0 conference.

The new RSS tool from Google sports a good set of basic features while providing, in my humble opinion, a great interface and user experience.

The interface is all based on the new Web 2.0 paradigm and by using Ajax technology it provides a soothing and pleasing experience to anyone looking to scan, browse and read news content coming from RSS and Atom feeds." continued ... (Via Robin Good)

Google RSS Feed Reader - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics