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I highly recommend The Design of Everyday Things to everyone I know who is designing any kind of user interface, whether machinery, houses, or software. I beli
by foofoo55 11y ago
I highly recommend The Design of Everyday Things to everyone I know who is designing any kind of user interface, whether machinery, houses, or software.
I believe that until there is some effective, easy, and universally-accepted metric of UI quality, there will be little to differentiate good designers from poor. ("Our UI meets UIQC Class 1 Standards", or in a specification, "All user screens must score level 96 or better on the UIQC test", or some such thing.)
- 0bit 11y agoThere is the multi-part ISO-9241 that covers the ergonomics of human-computer interaction. It even provides a definition of usability.
- paulojreis 11y agoI don't believe user interfaces could be evaluated in such a quantitative and useful way, as you describe. You could slap some number in there, but that doesn't make it useful. Bear in mind that the UI itself is just a part of the equation, alongside the user and the usage context. Two identical UIs (evaluated at about the same score with the hypothetical UIQC) can perform radically different in the hands of the end-user, because the users and their contexts are different.