Usability Quote of the Day

February 9, 2012

Most people who encounter computer-based automation at work do not choose the software with which they work, and have comparatively little control over when and how they do what they do. For them, the use of computers can be an oppressive experience, rather than a liberating one. -- Sarah Kuhn, Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, 1996    (via interaction-design.org)

Friday, March 17, 2006

Designing Your Applications for Usability

Online video interview with Jakob Nielsen...

"You don't have to be a usability expert to recognize the name Dr. Jakob Nielsen. He's considered the web usability guru, and is president of the Neilsen-Norman Group and author of Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity (and several other books).

In our first online video in the Great Minds in Development series, Dr. Jakob Nielsen tackles the issues of designing for usability and how to maximize usability in the apps you build. In this interview, he discusses everything from the proper attitude for programmers (why being smart might be bad for your code), to the importance of prototyping in design, to the reasons why PDF, Flash and local search engines can hurt more than they help. "   continued ...   (Via DevSource)

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