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 16, 2005

Google Base Item Types

Looks like an interesting Google addition but the start page is a little busy ...

"So Google Base launched today. If you haven’t heard about it, it’s been called an eBay and Craigslist killer among other things.

Whether or not you believe that Google Base will have that effect, the anxiety it produces comes from the “item type” feature, which I find fascinating. Item types are simply content genres, or types of content. Here is the complete list of prepopulated item types on Google Base so far:

- Course Schedules
- Events and Activities
- Jobs"   continued ...   (Via Bokardo)

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

Google Base.

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