Usability In The News

Usability Quote of the Day

October 11, 2008

Despite the enormous outward success of personal computers, the daily experience of using computers far too often is still fraught with difficulty, pain, and barriers for most people.... The lack of usability of software and the poor design of programs are the secret shame of the industry -- Mitchell Kapor, From Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, Software Design Manifesto, 1996 (via interaction-design.org)

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

10 Places You Must Use Ajax

A guide to Ajax usage ...

"It's been well over a year now since GMail changed the way everyone thought about web apps.

It's now officially annoying to use web apps that haven't replaced clunky html functionality with peppy Ajax goodness.

Here are places Ajax should now be required in a web application:

- Form driven interaction.
- Deep hierarchical tree navigation.
- Rapid user-to-user communication." continued ... (Via Alex Bosworth)

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