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

Scent, Search, and the Pursuit of User Happiness

A UX audio presentation and PDF now available ...

"Happy Users are the brass ring of web site design. Ultimately, the designers of every site have making users happy as their primary objective. However, many designs end up frustrating instead. Since 1996, User Interface Engineering’s main research objective is to understand how to achieve designs which produce happy users.

UIE’s researchers have found that user happiness is directly tied to whether the users accomplish their goals on the site. What prevents users from accomplishing their goals? Almost always, it’s poor design caused by a design team that doesn’t have all the information they need to make the right decisions.

In this entertaining and insightful presentation, originally presented as the keynote at the 2005 Web Design World Seattle conference, Jared M. Spool will share practical design strategies from highly-effective web sites."   continued ...   (Via UIE Brain Sparks)

Slide from presentation. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Slide from presentation.

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