Re:Simplicity
by chadboyda on Friday October 19, 2007 @01:34AM
(#70170)
Wow, thanks for sharing that observation! What a gem of insight into how easy it is to cross that gray line of usability.
Just a week ago I was watching the Berkely course videos from SIMS 141 on YouTube. This one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYbuDzvWr4s featured Dr. Daniel E. Rose from Yahoo! talking about User Experience Issues in Web Search.
Part of the video, which was recorded 2 years ago, he talks about some of their UI research and how they believe they can improve the interface a lot, primarily focusing on keyword suggestions to help people remember what they were really looking for when they might only remember part of it or something related. Ironically enough a day or two after I watched that video they launched this new feature.
Maybe they should have spent more time observing users. :)
Just a week ago I was watching the Berkely course videos from SIMS 141 on YouTube. This one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYbuDzvWr4s featured Dr. Daniel E. Rose from Yahoo! talking about User Experience Issues in Web Search.
Part of the video, which was recorded 2 years ago, he talks about some of their UI research and how they believe they can improve the interface a lot, primarily focusing on keyword suggestions to help people remember what they were really looking for when they might only remember part of it or something related. Ironically enough a day or two after I watched that video they launched this new feature.
Maybe they should have spent more time observing users. :)