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, December 22, 2005

Call for Support: WebRadio is way in to looking at Customisation and User Behaviour

Customizing with skins effects user behavior ...

"The PROSKIN Project is researching the effect that user interface skins have on interaction, specifically as to whether there are correlations between user profile and observable interactive behaviours. Proskin stands for PROfiled SKINs.

PhD student Nick Fine at Brunel University is looking at how giving the user the means to change their user interface may have significant impact upon the quality of interaction, even for apparently subtle cosmetic changes.

He says: 'The ability to re-skin or customise the user interface is fast becoming a common feature of many software applications and operating systems."   continued ...   (Via Usability News)

ProSkin WebRadio. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

ProSkin WebRadio.

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