<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 June 2010 11:11, Axel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newsletter@axelbor.de">newsletter@axelbor.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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That's nice. There a to many developers, which forget the user and the<br>
usability. Software and Devices with a bad usability are annoying.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>The book used for the Design for usable interactions module in the MSc. IT degree was Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction. It was O.K. Tended to be a bit repetitive in the later chapters. They did cover a few software development models but did not mention an open source development model, which works differently from proprietary software models.<br>
<br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/preeceetal">http://tinyurl.com/preeceetal</a><br><br>I remember during this module studying Sun's Gnome Usability Report 2001, written by Sun engineer Calum Benson, whereby a number of users,not having used Gnome before, were put through a variety of tasks and tests and getting them to mark the usability assessment and to provide comments. I found this report to have been very informative as user software familiarity, regardless of whether the software that they use has a good or bad design, does have an impact on preferences. I have found that this report has been withdrawn from the Gnome Developers Project Annals page and I cannot find another link to it (which is a shame). On Calum Bensons's blog there is no link to it, maybe it is because he is Motherwell supporter :-)<br>
<br><a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/category/usability/">http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/category/usability/</a><br><br>If anyone finds a link to this Sun report please post it. <br><br>gordon<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
There are a lots of design mistakes in everyday things as well. An<br>
interesting book about usability is <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2b3po56" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/2b3po56</a><br>
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