[dundee] Bad design examples...

[Axel]

My personal usability highlight:
I've participate in a English test for native German speakers at the  
University of Dundee.
One part of the test was to say if a statement correct or wrong. It  
was just pressing to buttons on a ordinary keyboard.

The key-mapping was genius:
F - false/failure/fake/falsch (German wrong) - correct statement
Y - Yes - wrong statement

Quoting gordon dunlop <zubenel at fedoraproject.org>:

> On 29 June 2010 11:11, Axel <newsletter at axelbor.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> That's nice. There a to many developers, which forget the user and the
>> usability. Software and Devices with a bad usability are annoying.
>>
>> 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.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/preeceetal
>
> 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 withdrawn from the Gnome Developers Project Annals page and I cannot find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 :-)
>
> http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/category/usability/
>
> If anyone finds a link to this Sun report please post it.
>
> gordon
>
>
>
>> There are a lots of design mistakes in everyday things as well. An
>> interesting book about usability is http://tinyurl.com/2b3po56
>>
>>
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