Tag archive for “Usability”
“Usability is the quality of a system that makes it easy to learn, easy to use, easy to remember, error tolerant, and subjectively pleasing.”
“The problem is that while logic is a powerful and effective programming tool, it is a pathetically weak and inappropriate interaction design tool.”
“The ultimate metric that I would like to propose for user friendliness is quite simple: if this system was a person, how long would it take before you punched it in the nose?”
“Cringley’s Second Law: Ease of use with equivalent performance varies with the square root of the cost of development. That means that to design a computer that’s ten times easier to use would cost 100 times as much.”