According to MacWorld, Sony’s new big boss told its shareholders that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has trouble using Sony products because the user interface is way too complicated. Her Majesty is a happy iPod user and enjoying the idiot-proof Apple interface.
That reminds me my little iRiver player. It’s just way too complicated. I learned [...]
I tried to explain to my good neighbors, who are pharmacists, why creating large software is very difficult. Here’s my analogy.
Creating a large-scale software is some task like drawing a picture on a canvas in the size of Dodger’s stadium, and you need to finish it in three months with five artists while detailed planning [...]
Joel Spolsky’s book User Interface Design for Programmers is fun to read. Kinda expensive though I don’t know why he opted to go full color because most stuff inside can be printed in nice and affordable B&W.
Summary of this book: (well, IMHO)
Users don’t read manual, nor dialogs.
Users can’t use mouse.
Users ain’t stupid, it’s just [...]
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