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)

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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