Usability Quote of the Day

February 9, 2012

Most people who encounter computer-based automation at work do not choose the software with which they work, and have comparatively little control over when and how they do what they do. For them, the use of computers can be an oppressive experience, rather than a liberating one. -- Sarah Kuhn, Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, 1996    (via interaction-design.org)

Saturday, October 01, 2005

A magazine-like interface for browsing/page-turning

A good analysis of User Interface Designs for physcal magazine computer replications ...

"I am part of an email distribution list here at MS that is focused on the topic of User Interface Design. Recently, one of the members posted a question to the list asking for input and/or examples of how the task of browsing a physical magazine might be replicated on a computer. While it doesn't have much to do with debugging and will likely never appear as an interface metaphore while debugging, my response does offer some insight as to how I view my job as a debugger UI developer. I am open to any thoughts, comments or suggestions you may have about this or any other debugger and/or user-interface topic. With that, here are example sites cited in the internal mail thread along with my response.

Zinio
Patagonia
Computer Trade Magazine
ActionScripts example

So these are all nice examples of how the user activity of browsing through a magazine can be replicated via a computer interface. Because it seems appropriate for this alias, I thought it would be interesting to voice some personal opinions of the examples given. I’d be interested to hear what other’s think as well."   continued ...   (Via JimGries's WebLog)

Zinio Page Flipping - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Zinio Page Flipping.

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