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 17, 2005

Beta 1-derful: The "Top 30" List

Several articles about the Office 12 user interface design ...

I've been blogging long enough now that many of the questions I receive through e-mail are covered in posts from the past. With more people reading every week, it's only natural that not everyone will have read everything I've written.

So, in honor of Beta 1, here are the top 30 articles you should read if you want to familiarize yourself with the user interface changes in Office 12. If you read these 30 articles, you'll have a good start at understanding what we're doing, why we're doing it, and how we're validating it.

- Posts about the Ribbon and how it works
- Posts about Galleries, Formatting, and Results-Oriented Design
- Why did we make a new UI for Office 12?
- The philosophies, ideas, and design tenets behind the new UI
- Usability techniques and validation of the new UI"   continued ...   (Via Jensen Harris)

Office 12 - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Office 12.

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