Usability Quote of the Day

November 21, 2008

In the information age, as computers invade our lives and more and more products contain a chip of silicon, we find that what lies between us humans and our devices is cognitive friction, which is something new and something that we are ill-prepared to deal with. Our engineering skills are highly refined, but when we apply them to a cognitive friction problem, they fail to solve it. -- Alan Cooper, The Inmates are Running the Asylum, p. 92.   (via interaction-design.org)
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Designing a better ballot

Before and after ...

How Design Can Save Democracy” is AIGA’s attempt to identify common design problems in election ballots and offer improvements.

s it an improvement? Sure.

But the real crime here is how terrible the original one is. Looks like a bunch of lawyers trying to figure out Quark. It’s tough to have much faith in your government’s ability to solve truly complicated challenges when it seems so inept at dealing with relatively simple issues. Hasn’t this been a known problem for eight years now?!

It’d also be interesting to see what ballots look like in other parts of the world."    (Continued via 37signals)    [Usability Resources]

Before Ballot Design - Usability, User Interface Design

Before Ballot Design


After Ballot Design - Usability, User Interface Design

After Ballot Design

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