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

Simplicity Rules

Tips for achieving simplicity ...

"It is interesting to look at simplicity from the developer side of the equation for a change. Martin Fowler has kicked over a hornet’s nest with his thoughts on the humane interface . This has a lot of very smart , and very pragmatic developers talking about simplicity in objects, methods and behaviours.

Good software thinks of the users first and makes life easy for them. Humane interfaces follow that principle.

This is why frameworks like Ruby on Rails , Django , and TurboGears work so well. They do a lot of the work so that I don’t have to. This is a great discussion that will only benefit developers on other platforms as this meme gets incorporated."   continued ...   (Via David Crow)


The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems


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