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, February 10, 2006

It's Gonna Be A Hot Summer

One click formatting in Excel 12 ...

"I spend a lot of time here writing about the new Office 12 UI. And why not--it's the project I work on and I'm proud of the work our team is doing.

But in reality, the purpose of any UI framework is to support the programs using it--and ultimately to enable them to provide awesome user experiences.

One of the things that blows me away in Excel 12 are the new data visualizations. This is an area in which the new UI technologies (the Ribbon, Galleries, Live Preview) and new capabilities in Excel (Conditional Formatting improvements, new graphics functionality) come together to make something great."   continued ...   (Via Jensen Harris)

One click formatting in Excel 12. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

One click formatting in Excel 12.

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