A user’s facial expressions are very useful for identifying interface components which create difficulties, frustration, and even satisfaction. Nothing makes it clearer to our clients than directly seeing the users of their systems speechless and confused in front of an incomprehensible menu, or smiling after completing a task without any difficulties.
This weekend, however, I was forced to do the ordering myself. I turned to the internet with the hope that I might be able to order food without having to actually interact with a human
We tend to overestimate the short term impact of a technology and underestimate the long term impact.
— Dr. Francis Collins - Director of the Human Genome Project. (via
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All I do now is search for stuff I can put on tumblr.
On most of the main social networks - including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5 - women outnumber men by a considerable amount. On Facebook, the 18-24 age group is largest, with 1,685,029 women in that age group compared to 977,753 men. In MySpace, the same age group dominates, with 7,091,214 women and 5,226,788 men.
sometimes design dissolves in behaviour and then quickly sublimates into hastily-printed and laminated signage
Our problem is not so much that we are stupider, but rather that the world is demanding that we become smarter. Forced to be broad, we sacrifice depth. We skim, we summarize, we skip the fine print and, all too often, we miss the fine point. We know we are drowning, but we do what we can to stay afloat.
While the cassette was dumped long ago by the music industry, it has lived on among publishers of audio books. Many people prefer cassettes because they make it easy to pick up in the same place where the listener left off, or to rewind in case a certain sentence is missed.
