Usability In The News

Usability Quote of the Day

November 21, 2008

In the information age, as computers invade our lives and more and more products contain a chip of silicon, we find that what lies between us humans and our devices is cognitive friction, which is something new and something that we are ill-prepared to deal with. Our engineering skills are highly refined, but when we apply them to a cognitive friction problem, they fail to solve it. -- Alan Cooper, The Inmates are Running the Asylum, p. 92. (via interaction-design.org)

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Designing user experiences at Microsoft

Two good interviews - audio and vidio downloads ...

"Microsoft's chief blogger Robert Scoble interviews his colleague Jenny Lam, creative lead of the MSX (Microsoft User Experience) design team, to talk about the user experience work her team is doing for Windows Vista.

At CES 2006 Jenny Lam also talked with Chris Pirillo about the Aero desktop experience, and the design of the latest fonts and interface in Windows Vista." continued ... (Via Putting people first)