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

Introduction to Web 2.0

A good summary introduction of Web 2.0 ...

"Web 2.0 is an umbrella term referring to the ongoing transition to a full participatory Web, with participation including both humans and machines. Web 2.0 is characterized by the following themes:

The Read/Write Web: In which the Web is seen as a two-way medium, where people are both readers and writers. The main catalyst for this is social software, allowing communication and collaboration between two or more people.

The Web as Platform: In which the Web is seen as a programming platform upon which developers create software applications. The main catalyst for this is Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, allowing communication between two or more software applications.

The term "Web 2.0" was coined by Dale Dougherty of O'Reilly Media."   continued ...   (Via Squidoo/Joshua Porter)

Web 2.0 - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Web 2.0.

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