January 2004 - Posts

• OK/Cancel

  I just got forwarded this link to a pretty amusing and interesting usability site: http://www.ok-cancel.com/index.html Read More... Posted Friday, January 30, 2004 9:20 AM by stevencl | 0 Comments Filed under: Usability

• Why profile users and not tasks?

  I was recently asked to describe why we had decided to profile user characteristics via the cognitive dimensions framework and not task characteristics, as had been done by the originators of the framework. The main reason is fairly straightforward. Over Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2004 5:35 PM by stevencl | 1 Comments Filed under: API Usability

• Using the cognitive dimensions - premature commitment

  After a long absence, here's the next installment in a series on how to use the cognitive dimensions framework. For each goal that the user will attempt to accomplish with the API, list the alternative ways that the API allows the user to accomplish that Read More... Posted Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:55 PM by stevencl | 2 Comments Filed under: API Usability