Usability In The News

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)

Monday, December 12, 2005

The Design of Type

An overview of recent developments in type font design ...

"Type seems to be getting a lot of attention these days. Here are a few recent ruminations on typography:

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
Richard Rutter of Clearleft is bringing principles from The Elements of Typographic Style to the Web one at a time:

“In order to allay some of the myths surrounding typography on the web, I have structured this website to step through Bringhurst’s working principles, explaining how to accomplish each using techniques available in html and css." continued ... (Via Functioning Form)

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