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)

Friday, March 10, 2006

Poor design causes 50% of product returns

A reserach about product design...

"A study has shown that half of all malfunctioning products returned by customers are in full working order. They are returned because customers can't figure out how to operate them.

Most of the flaws found in the study could be tracked back to the first phase of the development process: product definition.

The study was done Elke den Ouden from the Technical University of Eindhoven."   continued ...   (Via GUUUI)

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