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)

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Microsoft's Windows Vista mainstraims user experience discourse

Designing Windows Vista with user experience with emphasis on user experience...

"The Windows Vista campaign is very much centred on the concept of "user experience": the Vista promotional website contains an "Experiences" section with a subsection on "User Experience" (currently not yet online). Also the "Features" section contains an extensive subsection on "User Experience".

This is excellent news. Part of our jobs as user experience specialists or experience designers has always been convincing other people about the importance of taking the user experience into account.

Now that Microsoft is doing that on a massive scale, we should be delighted. Not only because it takes some work of our shoulders, but mostly because the more people are convinced about the importance of taking the user experience into account, the more work we will get and the more interesting this work will become."   continued ...   (Via Putting people first)

Windows Vista - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Windows Vista

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