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)

Monday, January 02, 2006

Gerry McGovern's clear lack of understanding

A challange to the idea that graphics design plays little role in website design ...

"As much as I'd like to let this one go, I just can't.

Gerry McGovern is apparently: widely regarded as the number one worldwide authority on managing web content as a business asset. Ok. Shame that someone with this amount of apparent industry clout embarrasses himself with a truly naive observation. I honestly don't know where to start.

Most of Gerry's post sems to be slagging off the Communication Arts Magazine awards, which has to be said, don't really feature a lot of good graphic design for the web. They feature a lot of good graphic design, which doesn't work well on the web, which is what I think Gerry is trying to say."   continued ...   (Via Mark Boulton)

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