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)

Friday, November 04, 2005

Meeting your intranet users

Considering the uniqueness of users on an intranet ...

"Intranets serve a diverse range of users in organisations, from staff in head office to those in regional offices, or on the front line.

These users are not all the same, and do not have the same needs, issues or environment. A key principle for intranet teams is therefore: you can’t usefully deliver information to users that you haven’t personally met.

This article discusses the challenges in delivering information to all staff within an organisation, and outlining practical approaches that ensure efforts spent publishing intranet content are not wasted.

There is no such thing as ‘intranet users’, as this presupposes that all staff within an organisation have the same information needs."   continued ...   (Via CM Briefing)

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

Intranet.

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