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)

Saturday, November 19, 2005

Creating Simple Software in a Geek-driven Culture

An online talk about moving from a technology to user orieneted model for Firefox ...

"Two years ago, the Mozilla Foundation resembled most other open-source organizations: it was slow, technology-oriented, and allergic to consumers. Today, the Mozilla Corporation develops, distributes and promotes the first open-source product ever to penetrate the mainstream: Firefox was downloaded over 100 million times in less than one year. We will look at how Mozilla transformed its development practices, economic models—basically its entire culture—to change from a technology-focused to a people-focused organization in such a short time."   continued ...   (Via Stanford HCI)

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

Firefox.

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