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Usability Quote of the Day

March 21, 2010

Software design is the act of determining the user's experience with a piece of software. It has nothing to do with how the code works inside, or how big or small the code is. The designer's task is to specify completely and unambiguously the user's whole experience. -- David Liddle, From Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, 1996 (via interaction-design.org)

Friday, December 23, 2005

Choices In Dialog Boxes

Dialog box confusion in terminology ...

"Most applications today present dialog boxes with questions and often present two or more choices. As example, if you close a modified document in an application the Save dialog appears and present two choices, Yes and No. Where Yes indicates that the user want to save the document and No to discard the document changes. In addition the Save dialog often contains the Cancel option where the modified document will not be closed." continued ... (Via User Interface Blog)

Notepad Dialog Box - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics