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)

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Practicing Usability in Hong Kong

A good perspective on usability in Hong Kong ...

"Here at the uiGarden, we have been having discussions on whether there are cultural differences between practicing usability in the West and the Far East. In an exploration of the theme, we interviewed Apogee’s own Daniel Szuc and Josephine Wong. They give their own uptakes of the discussion and offer us their insights from their own experiences of working in Hong Kong.

Apogee - What are some of the differences you notice with user behaviour(s) in Hong Kong?

Daniel – We have seen users’web habits mature very quickly over the last 5 years as the web has become more main stream in Hong Kong, including banking, paying bills, broadband TV, buying tickets, blogging, shopping etc. To my surprise, the web took some time to arrive in full force in Hong Kong so we have really only been watching people use it since 1999. It will be interesting to watch the differences between not only users in Hong Kong, but users across the region including: mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan and India to name but a few."   continued ...   (Via uiGarden)

Hong Kong. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Hong Kong.

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