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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)

Thursday, November 03, 2005

India short of 60,000 usability professionals

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"With a shortfall of almost 60,000 usability professionals, Indian IT and ITES companies presently face a real threat of missing the current boom in this sector.

Infosys Communication Design Group Associate Vice President and Head Sridhar Marri said, "We have around 100 usability professionals at this junction and have decided to hire 100 more people in the next two years."

There are around 3,000 projects happening right now and only 150 usability professionals produced in a year. Despite that there are no professional institute to train such students right now, he added." continued ... (Via HindustanTimes)

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