Usability In The News

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)

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Lexar JumpDrive Mercury

Making a useful product more useful via the interface ...

"Lexar’s newest addition to its USB flash drives at CES is the JumpDrive Mercury. If you’ve ever had a problem with knowing how much storage space you have left on your drive, this Mercury takes care of that with an integrated capacity meter. In fact, this meter gives you the info you want without ever having to be plugged into your PC. The display, created by E Ink Corp, is paper-thin and unbreakable (for klutzes like me). The drive will come in 1GB and 2GB capacities. Also look for the JumpDrive Firefly, which is smaller and comes in 256MB, 512MB, and 1GB capacities." continued ... (Via Gizmodo)

Lexar Flash Drive. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics