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)
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

User Experience and IA

An analysis of IA the importance of user experience...

"IA’s have always wondered how to define information architecture in relation to other fields. Starting with the early days of library science, through the "discovery" of other fields and the times when experienced IA’s called themselves Big IA’s, to modern days of business design and experience design, the borders have been fuzzy.

I hope to show that, despite the fact that most of us are proud to wear the label Information Architect, we are all User Experience practitioners who practice IA from time to time.

Finally, I would like to show the next steps for IA’s, which includes a call for international networks, and national events (such as this Italian IA Summit)."   continued ...   (Via Peter Boersma)

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