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)

Thursday, November 10, 2005

1000 Card Pick-Up

Continuing the Office 12 interface design process with a card sort exercise ...

"Today, we got back a pile of data from a recent card sort exercise.

We brought in 17 Word users and 9 Excel users and gave them a huge stack of virtual "cards" containing the name of a command and a short description of what the command does. They were also given the proposed names of Ribbon tabs (both core tabs and contextual tabs). The subjects were asked to stack the commands where they think they belong solely based on the names of the tabs and the commands.

Beyond that, the subjects weren't given any other instructions and they weren't allowed to see Office 12 or the new UI at all."   continued ...   (Via Jensen Harris)

Card Sort - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Card Sort.

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