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Identifying Myths – What Usability Is NOT.

by Vishal Mehta February 9, 2012 Usability

Myths on Usability Fact vs. Fiction on UXBooth: A close friend asked me a few days ago – “You’ve covered decent ground on the science, dimensions, characteristics, design aspects, process and pervasiveness of usability considerations. How about doing a reverse bit? What usability is not about? Or the myths of usability?” I jumped at the chance. [...]

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Top Usability Problems – Pie Chart

by Vishal Mehta August 7, 2011 Usability Issues

  Top Usability Problems Pie Chart by Jakob Nielsen. Original image link at: Niall Kennedy’s Flickr Photo Stream

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Usability Process: What Users Do; Not What Users Say

by Vishal Mehta May 15, 2011 Process

A view through a magnifying glass on one aspect of the Usability Process – finding the need and gap… An age-old and common technique to find what users need is to interview them AND/OR give questionnaires to fill out. How many times you have been truthful while filling out a survey!? I mean, really truthful? [...]

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Usability Quotes

by Vishal Mehta April 25, 2011 Usability

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring. (Paul Rand)  Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. A man who uses a great many words [...]

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