Monthly Archives: April 2008
The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment
Content Consumer has a usability review up of the latest Ubuntu 8.04 release, Hardy Heron. Using twelve tasks, ranging from the everyday to the less common, the review points out several of the problems Linux still has with reaching the … Continue reading
Ergonomics of Apple
MacUser has an amusing post up about the Apple Ergonomics page, which appears to have not been updated for some time. The items here are still as true today as they were back then (whenever “then” was), but you’d think … Continue reading
The Operator Error Category
As I work some of the administrative aspects of this site, along with working up a queue of past items I want to post about, I kept trying to figure out what to do about one category in particular. How … Continue reading
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User Interface Poisoning
Not to get things off to a particularly serious start… all things in the corporate world seem to come back to Dilbert these days, so why not just get things started off that way. This is a series of comics … Continue reading
Welcome to Except on Tuesdays!
Welcome to Except on Tuesdays. A blog about usability, user-centered design and human-systems integration. I’ve been wanting to set up this blog for some time now, having been delayed in it’s launch for some time for various reasons. Thankfully I’m … Continue reading
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