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)

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

5 Ways To Make Sure That Users Abandon Your Forms

A good article about form design...

"All I wanted to do was schedule a service appointment for my car. As many of you will recall, I will avoid talking to a human if I can when engaging in these types of tasks. So, I did what ever red-blooded Geek would do and I went to the dealership's web site. Please don't write me to tell me what an idiot I am for taking my car to the dealer for service. This particular dealer (which shall remain nameless because I'm going to dog them in a minute) actually has a fabulous grip on customer experience. In person.

Online is another story. It looks like they got sucked in by some firm who is more style over substance. But I digress. "   continued ...   (Via ICE - Improving Customer Experience)

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