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)

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Label your form controls properly

On clickable form labels ...

"In Label - the secret element, Robert Nyman points out how annoying it can be to use a site that does not make proper use of the label element to associate form controls with their labels.

I second that. Placing the cursor on a tiny radio button or checkbox can be tricky. However, if the corresponding text has been associated with the radio button or checkbox you can also click the text. Much easier, wouldn’t you say? Unfortunately that is one area where my favourite browser, Safari, falls short of the competition.

Oh, how I would love to have clickable form labels in Safari. Pretty please, give us clickable form labels soon!"   continued ...   (Via 456 Berea Street)

Safari Browser. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Safari Browser.

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