Usability Quote of the Day

November 21, 2008

In the information age, as computers invade our lives and more and more products contain a chip of silicon, we find that what lies between us humans and our devices is cognitive friction, which is something new and something that we are ill-prepared to deal with. Our engineering skills are highly refined, but when we apply them to a cognitive friction problem, they fail to solve it. -- Alan Cooper, The Inmates are Running the Asylum, p. 92.   (via interaction-design.org)
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

When tagging doesn't work - a comparison of two sites

Tagging does not work for all websites ...

"As an information architect, I love the idea of tagging (or folksonomies) as much as everyone else. I have had tremendous success using del.icio.us to find information that is difficult to surface with search and love clicking through flickr tags looking at interesting photographs.

But sometimes the concept just doesn't work, even in domains where we'd think it should.

I'd like to compare two of my favourite podcast sites - Odeo and IT Conversations."   continued ...   (Via DonnaM)

Odeo Website. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Odeo Website

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