CodeQuotes » Usability http://codequotes.com random technology quotations Tue, 24 May 2011 03:35:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Marine on usability http://codequotes.com/2010/10/04/marine-on-usability http://codequotes.com/2010/10/04/marine-on-usability#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:18:09 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/?p=164 “It is far better to adapt the technology to the user than to force the user to adapt to the technology.”

— Larry Marine

]]> http://codequotes.com/2010/10/04/marine-on-usability/feed 0 Usability http://codequotes.com/2010/07/21/usability http://codequotes.com/2010/07/21/usability#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:38:18 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/?p=156 “Usability is the quality of a system that makes it easy to learn, easy to use, easy to remember, error tolerant, and subjectively pleasing.”

— Usability First, http://www.usabilityfirst.com/about-usability/introduction-to-user-centered-design/

]]> http://codequotes.com/2010/07/21/usability/feed 0 Cooper: Logic and interaction design http://codequotes.com/2006/12/14/cooper-logic-and-interaction-design http://codequotes.com/2006/12/14/cooper-logic-and-interaction-design#comments Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:48:55 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/2006/12/14/cooper-logic-and-interaction-design “The problem is that while logic is a powerful and effective programming tool, it is a pathetically weak and inappropriate interaction design tool.”

— Alan Cooper

]]> http://codequotes.com/2006/12/14/cooper-logic-and-interaction-design/feed 0 Carey: User-friendliness http://codequotes.com/2006/08/17/carey-user-friendliness http://codequotes.com/2006/08/17/carey-user-friendliness#comments Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:07:01 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/2006/08/17/carey-user-friendliness “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?”

— Tom Carey

]]> http://codequotes.com/2006/08/17/carey-user-friendliness/feed 0 Cringeley: Ease of use http://codequotes.com/2006/03/29/cringeley-ease-of-use http://codequotes.com/2006/03/29/cringeley-ease-of-use#comments Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:48:13 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/2006/03/29/cringeley-ease-of-use “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.”

— Robert Cringeley

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