Showing posts with label Usability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Usability. Show all posts

Myth of Usability testing


Robert Hoekman, Jr. | The Myth of Usability Testing
 This is really interesting talk on what really happens in the industry.

Design treasures of Amazon by Jarad M. Spool (Preseantation with Audio)


You cant balance yourself even after holding this...


Whats the problem?
This doesn't give you feel of stability when you hold it. You still move even if you hold this.










Where do you find these?
In all Public transport (Buses, Mrt in singapore).

What is the solution?
I found one design in malaysia (I do not have picture though), they have a rod coming down which is stable.  But, there is a chance people might get hurt.

Do not have more than needed, just keep it simple...

 
Why do we make things so complex when it is not needed...

Do we need so much of material there when it is not needed. And it makes much more hard to use it.

Really bad where tissues are placed!


How should one get tissues? 
How can they miss such basic things?

This is in one of the university campus in Singapore.. It seems the contractor has decided place to put tissues even before the construction was over... You can see what people are doing, just pulling out tissues to reach it!.

This reminds me of Intranet projects were people buy technology before knowing what the users are going to do with it. Which i think is one of the reason why many intranets fail.