Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Durability of Usability Guidelines (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Jakob Nielsen dips back into history (ok, 1986) and discovers that about 90% of usability guidelines produced back then are still relevant today. The take home message for me from this piece was that although computer technology changes quite rapidly, user behaviours and abilities do not. So, looking to the future rather the past, what I take from this is that to be durable and persistent and useful, a usability guideline needs to start from a consideration of users, not technology.
Jakob Nielsen dips back into history (ok, 1986) and discovers that about 90% of usability guidelines produced back then are still relevant today. The take home message for me from this piece was that although computer technology changes quite rapidly, user behaviours and abilities do not. So, looking to the future rather the past, what I take from this is that to be durable and persistent and useful, a usability guideline needs to start from a consideration of users, not technology.
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