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)

Monday, November 14, 2005

Clean, Cutting-edge UI Design Cuts McAfee's Support Calls by 90%

Lessons learned with McAfee's User Interface Design ...

"When McAfee launched it’s new ProtectionPilot software in the summer of 2004, the number of support calls they received was drastically less than expected and what is typical of a software launch. According to development manager David Ries, “Focusing on the design of the product had a significant impact on the cost of supporting the product.”

The article on softwareceo.com presents 23 tips attributed to McAfee’s success with the ProtectionPilot launch:

- Start the UI design before you build the product.
- Understand your software from a user’s standpoint.
- Get feedback through task"   continued ...   (Via IxDA)

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

McAfee ProtectionPilot.

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