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 10, 2006

The Road to Recommendation

Taking the time to determine what works for users ...

"The user moved their mouse all over the page and finally clicked on Search declaring, "I wish there was a link that had what I wanted." And there was. Exactly what the user wanted. However, the user would have to scroll to see it and they never did.

During the debriefing meeting, a team member said what everyone was thinking: "Our users don't like to scroll. We need to make all of our pages fit on one screen." Everyone but me, that is.

Common Problem: Jumping to Inferences Too Quickly" continued ... (Via UIE)

Too many rectangles. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics