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)

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Ambient Findability: Talking with Peter Morville

An interesting interview with Peter Morville about Findability ...

"Peter’s latest book, Ambient Findability, was published in 2005. He takes a moment to chat with Boxes and Arrows about what he’s been thinking on findability since the book was published.

Boxes & Arrows: When did you start thinking about “findability” as a concept? How is it different from the concepts you learned and applied in library science?

Peter Morville: I first used the word in a presentation at the 2002 Information Architecture Summit in Baltimore. Soon after, I wrote “The Age of Findability.” For me, findability is about crossing boundaries of discipline and medium."   continued ...   (Via Boxes and Arrows)


Ambient Findability


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