Usability - I need it thats why
Software processes have for long been input/ouput mechanisms that have long worked on brute force. The user sends the information and using varying categories of protocols the data is sent back to the user using which the user can carry the next functionality.
As long as data is sent and data is received, the task is complete. The testing team has cleared the software and it can be launched in the market for the ultimate users.
The result, brilliant software with features a user may never be able to reveal or a small category of trained/skilled users who take it to the extreme.
Large chunk of software created never really under goes usability tests, to check if they are simple and usable.
Microsoft, IBM and Apple have long worked on making the tasks for user simpler with guidelines, but behind rot method of software creation these guidelines are merely followed not interpreted.
One of the most interesting piece of user-interface I have come across in recent times has been the Microsoft ‘Intuitive’ style of interface development deployed in money 2004, which simplifies the information for the user.
Microsoft unfortunately violates the very same style in its other products, or it may appear we have too much information where do we add it?
As long as data is sent and data is received, the task is complete. The testing team has cleared the software and it can be launched in the market for the ultimate users.
The result, brilliant software with features a user may never be able to reveal or a small category of trained/skilled users who take it to the extreme.
Large chunk of software created never really under goes usability tests, to check if they are simple and usable.
Microsoft, IBM and Apple have long worked on making the tasks for user simpler with guidelines, but behind rot method of software creation these guidelines are merely followed not interpreted.
One of the most interesting piece of user-interface I have come across in recent times has been the Microsoft ‘Intuitive’ style of interface development deployed in money 2004, which simplifies the information for the user.
Microsoft unfortunately violates the very same style in its other products, or it may appear we have too much information where do we add it?
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