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

New Yahoo Maps Shows Power of Flash

A detailed review of the new Yahoo Maps ...

"An all new Yahoo Maps launches tonight at 9 pm PST.

I spoke with Paul Levine, the General Manager of Local, Jeremy Kreitler, a Senior Product Manager of Maps and Local, and Diana Vincent, a PR Manager, earlier today about Yahoo Maps.

Unlike Google and Microsoft maps, Yahoo has chosen to use Flash over AJAX in building its new service, and they’ve added new features that are not found anywhere else. They’ve also done some things to reduce the hassle of creating, sharing and printing maps online.

It’s built with on the new MacroMedia Flex platform for flash, something we’ve been hearing a lot about lately."   continued ...   (Via TechCrunch)

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

Yahoo Maps.

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