Usability Quote of the Day

February 9, 2012

Most people who encounter computer-based automation at work do not choose the software with which they work, and have comparatively little control over when and how they do what they do. For them, the use of computers can be an oppressive experience, rather than a liberating one. -- Sarah Kuhn, Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, 1996    (via interaction-design.org)

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Symbolism (Office 12 Coolness, Part 5)

Word 12 access to symbols ...

"In every phase of my life in which I've been required to create documents, a different set of symbols has been important to me.

For instance, in high school, I studied Spanish, which meant figuring out how to type ñ and ¿. In college, as I repeatedly flirted with flunking German, I inserted a lot more of ä, ß, and ö. And now that I work at Microsoft, my symbols of choice are © and ®.

That's one of the reasons I appreciate the Symbol gallery on the Insert tab of Word 12. When I want a symbol, I just pop open the gallery and choose the one I want."   continued ...   (Via Jensen Harris)

Word 12 Symbol Gallery. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Word 12 Symbol Gallery.

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