Usability Quote of the Day

February 9, 2012

Most people who encounter computer-based automation at work do not choose the software with which they work, and have comparatively little control over when and how they do what they do. For them, the use of computers can be an oppressive experience, rather than a liberating one. -- Sarah Kuhn, Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, 1996    (via interaction-design.org)

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Prioritizing Design Time: A Long Tail Approach

Spending time on the design of pages where users spend most time ...

"Do you find that you spend an inordinate amount of time fretting over your homepage? Is it the one page that gets the most attention from your design team? How about other parts of your company? Does it get attention even from people who aren’t on the design team?

We see this all the time. On nearly every one of the projects that we work on, and even the ones that we only hear about, we observe the same thing: the homepage has the highest priority in the design food chain. Much more energy is spent deciding what will go where on the home page than any other page or section of the web site.

Here is what The Long Tail of UIE.com looks like:"   continued ...   (Via UIE Brain Sparks )

UIE Long Tail - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

UIE Long Tail.

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