http://www.interactiondesignblog.com The blog about interaction design and usability Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:51:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/2008/08/ease-of-use-defined-in-iso/ http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/2008/08/ease-of-use-defined-in-iso/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:16:13 +0000 admin http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/?p=251

Design requirements for context of use and user characteristics

Test method for walk-up-and-use products

Test method for consumer products

Test method for the installation of consumer products

An especially interesting section was; "The purpose of the test is to provide a basis for predicting the ease of installation of a consumer product, including measures of its effectiveness and efficiency of installation, and the satisfaction of the intended user population in the intended context of its use" All usability experts and industry guru's proclaim that in order to judge the usability you have to test this with users and working prototypes. This ISO claims to have a standard that can 'predict' to which extent 'ease of installation' both in terms of effectiveness and efficiency, and satisfaction! I am suspicious that they have developed a standard that can 'predict' this. But I haven't read it so if any has used the new standard I would certainly like to hear your experiences. [Continue reading...]]]> http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/2008/08/ease-of-use-defined-in-iso/feed/ 2 http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/2008/07/how-overcome-the-internal-fight-between-marketing-and-design/ http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/2008/07/how-overcome-the-internal-fight-between-marketing-and-design/#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:40:25 +0000 admin http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/?p=224 [Continue reading...]]]> http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/2008/07/how-overcome-the-internal-fight-between-marketing-and-design/feed/ 1 http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/2008/05/bad-habits-of-designers/ http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/2008/05/bad-habits-of-designers/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 21:38:45 +0000 admin http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/?p=57 [Continue reading...] ]]> http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/2008/05/bad-habits-of-designers/feed/ 1 http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/2008/04/interactive-lights-dune/ http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/2008/04/interactive-lights-dune/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:27:59 +0000 admin http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/?p=51 [Continue reading...] ]]> http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/2008/04/interactive-lights-dune/feed/ 1