Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.
Early moralists who believed that taking too much pleasure at the table led inexorably to bad character-or worse, to sex-were (in the best-case scenario, anyway) absolutely right.
Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.
Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after,you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemb...
Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered.
It was once said that this is the land of the free. There is, I believe, a statue out there in the harbor, with something written on it about "Give me your hungry...your oppressed...give me pretty much everybody"-that's the way I remember it, anyway....
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent.
When you go to a site, you usually run into usability problems pretty quickly. They're not hidden. They're not complicated. They're not baffling. They were in the design or crept into the design.
As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.
The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil.
I don't think there are as many usability issues as there are tactical or strategic decisions related to whether incorporating social networking into your site is going to help or hurt.
I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropol...
Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.
Once we have inexpensive energy, we can readily and inexpensively convert the vast amount of dirty and salinated water we have on the planet to usable water.
Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.
