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 08, 2005

Know Your ABC's (Office 12 Coolness, Part 3)

A new sort feature in Office 12 ...

"One of the features I always wished Word had was the ability to alphabetize a list of words. I always copied my words into Excel, fixed them up one per row, sorted them there, and then pasted back into Word. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Word has had this feature since version 2.0!

Formerly a hidden gem on the Table menu, most people think of the Sort command to sort rows or columns within Word tables. The secret is that, despite being on the Table menu, the Sort command works just fine without a table.

In Office 12, we've added this feature to the Paragraph chunk on the Write tab--and you can use it to sort part of your document very quickly."   continued ...   (Via Jensen Harris)

Office 12 Sort Command - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Office 12 Sort Command.

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