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 09, 2005

An idea for phones, voice mail systems, and touch-tone mazes

A UI suggestion for voice mail and touch-tones ...

"Forgetting how technically difficult this may be, here’s an idea…

There should be a standard to display voice mail and touch tone options on a cell phone screen. So, for example, if I call a company, and they say “Press 1 for this, Press 2 for that, Press 3 for this thing, Press 4 for that thing” it would be great if the options would appear on my phone screen like:

1. This
2. That
3. This thing
4. That thing

Then, when I press a number, the next series of menus immediately appears on the screen:

1. This
2. That
3. This thing, Etc."   continued ...   (Via Signal vs. Noise)

Voice Mail Usability. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Voice Mail Usability.

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