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)

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Towards a learner-centred education system

User-centered education getting some attention ...

"The British educational thinktank NESTA Futurelab argues that the logic of education systems should be reversed so that the system conforms to the learner, rather than the learner to the system. This is, according to them, the essence of personalisation, which demands a system capable of offering bespoke support for each individual in order to foster engaged and independent learners able to reach their full potential.

Two recent documents are available for download:

- Vision document
- Personalisation and Digital Technologies"   continued ...   (Via Putting people first)

User-centered learning. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

User-centered learning.

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