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)

Friday, January 13, 2006

Selecting With the Magic Box

Adding some functionality to the interface ...

"Here's a handy trick to kick off your weekend.

You've got a few columns of text in a Word document, separated by tabs. They're not in a table.

Now, you want to format just one of the columns without impacting the text in any of the other ones. Think you have to manually select and format every word in the column manually? Not so!

Simply hold down the Alt key and drag a box around the text you want to format. Let go of the Alt key and all of the text within the box is selected! Apply formatting until your heart is content. Or, perhaps click Copy to put the selected text on the clipboard."   continued ...   (Via Jensen Harris)

Magic Box. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Magic Box.

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