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)

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Check User ID Button

A simple and good idea for checking to see if an ID is available ...

"We’ve all been there. You find a new cool site. You decide to register for their service. You enter your favorite user id, the password, your pet’s birth date, the name of your third grade teacher (the cute one that you had a crush on), and your favorite Easter egg color. You finally press Submit. Then you find out the user id is already taken. Arrgghh!

Digg.com bypasses the ugly post-submit depression by putting a “Check” button next to the user id. Enter the name. Press Check. Find out immediately if your favorite Id is available."   continued ...   (Via UIE Brain Sparks)

ID Check Button - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

ID Check Button.

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