Triangle User Experience

Another article about World Usability Day on BBC. Here’s a quote:

> Thursday is World Usability Day.

> I’m sorry, but I’m not sure the world is ready for such a day.

> It’s not that I don’t think usability is a good idea – of course it is.

> It’s not that I don’t think some progress has been made. Of course it has. The success of the iconic iPod is largely down to the usability of the device, especially the click wheel interface and iTunes.

> No, my worry is that the world has so far to go in making technology usable that I fear that celebrating usability is premature and conceals just how much hassle we put up with on a daily basis.

Read the article:

* http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4392644.stm

A couple of notable updates to the usability ticketing contest:

* Deadline for entries has been extended to Thursday at noon.
* Instead of looking for the most interesting usability tickets, we’re now going to hold a random drawing.

For full details, visit:

* http://www.triux.org/usability-ticket/

Motricity is holding a corporate usability ticketing event. We’ve asked program managers and developers at Motricity to ticket products with great or poor usability. On Thursday, November 3, we’ll collect the tickets and hold a random drawing to award an Ipod Nano to one lucky person.

Corporate ticketing events, like this one, are designed to encourage people to think about how usability issues affects their day-to-day lives, giving them a better understanding of how the products they build affect your customers’ day-to-day lives. There’s still time to hold your own corporate ticketing event.

From the BBC:

> With thousands of products and services to choose from, ease of use is still a bonus factor rather than a norm and those that possess this elusive quality often go on to dominate markets.

> Google, Amazon and eBay are successful brands not just because of their financial models but the ease with which their users are able to achieve their goals on these sites, be they searching, buying or selling.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4393468.stm