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)
From Feed Informer

Thursday, February 23, 2006

To Dash or Not To Dash

Making password input more usable ...

"If you’re a TiVo owner, the company will occasionally notify you of a new service or software upgrade available for your recorder. The TiVo folks, knowing that you may be very excited to get the new features, gives you a chance to sign up for the priority upgrade list, allowing you to be one of the first in your neighborhood to get the newest and greatest.

Signing up is straight forward. The only information you need is your TiVo Service Number:"   continued ...   (Via UIE Brain Sparks)

TiVo Password Box - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

TiVo Password Box

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