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)

Thursday, March 16, 2006

To Web 2.0 Companies: Invisible or Dead, Pick One

About web 2.0...

"Two things stood out listening the latest Om and Niall PodSession (VOIP and Mobile Integration):

1. Om’s hammer is telecom.
2. All the companies here are features, not products

This is why mash-up directories are so valuable - they tie a collection features together in a useful way (what applications are supposed to do).

On one hand, perhaps this is good - small teams focused on polishing their one or two features, continually re-factoring, strengthening, etc. On the other hand, 18 different online calendaring sites (not to mention all the existing calendaring apps that have been adopted to date) to choose from? "   continued ...   (Via MNteractive)

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