Usability In The News

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)

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