Usability Quote of the Day

November 21, 2008

In the information age, as computers invade our lives and more and more products contain a chip of silicon, we find that what lies between us humans and our devices is cognitive friction, which is something new and something that we are ill-prepared to deal with. Our engineering skills are highly refined, but when we apply them to a cognitive friction problem, they fail to solve it. -- Alan Cooper, The Inmates are Running the Asylum, p. 92.   (via interaction-design.org)
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Monday, November 28, 2005

Media: Connected Home is Confusing

New consumer technology must be usable to be widely accepted ...

"Networked Home 'too confusing' for consumers" develops the theme in UN story: Connecting up the Home with the Needs of Users by reviewing other conference speakers' contributions and the fundamental hurdles that haven't been jumped in moving to connected-up consumer products.

'Even Microsoft’s Branet admitted there was a need to "focus on educating consumers".

'But until the key players stop operating in silos, this isn’t going to happen,' is media consultant Jemima Gibbons' view, as she returns from the Connected Home conference."   continued ...   (Via Usability News)

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

Connected Home.

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