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)

Friday, December 16, 2005

Toshiba Brings Peace of Mind to Simple Cellphone Users

Another attempt to simplify complex technology ...

"If you’ve ever gotten a desperate call from your parents, from their land line, begging you to help them figure out the new cellphone they just purchased, you’ll be happy to hear about Toshiba’s V50T. An easy-to-use cellphone with something called “simple modes” built in, you can personalize your menu to only show features you use (such as making and receiving calls), and dump the rest. You can also enlarge the type for easy reading, and for kids and/or teenagers, you can actually limit the amount of talktime and phone numbers that can be dialed. I’d say that’s a score for frustrated parents paying way too much in overage fees. Minimal features include a 1.3-megapixel camera, miniSD card slot and 2 TFT displays. Comes in 4 colors."   continued ...   (Via Gizmodo)

Toshiba V50D - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Toshiba V50D.

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