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 21, 2006

Which Letter Is Better?

Using the keyboard with the ribbon in Office 12 ...

"I mentioned a few days ago that the team has been immersed lately in improving the Office 2007 keyboard model. We got a lot of constructive feedback around the model from Beta 1 and so we're hard at work addressing it for Beta 2.

Today, I want to just throw out a minor but important detail of the overall design for discussion to see what you think.

As I mentioned in my original post on the keyboard model, the first step of using the keyboard with the Ribbon is pressing a letter to navigate to the tab which contains the control you want to use. For instance, many apps have a Review tab, and pressing ALT+R puts you in a mode to access the commands on the Review tab with the keyboard by pressing subsequent letters.

One of the questions we're trying to answer is: What letter should we use for the first tab of each of the Office 2007 programs?"   continued ...   (Via Jensen Harris)

Keyboard Options - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Keyboard Options

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