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xiphiasI wouldn't know. I use Semagic.
Nyah, nyah.
"Course, it makes me wonder whether web designers and other interface designers actually do any coursework on the subject any more. I mean, my wife, who is an interface designer, has years of work on usability, accessibility, and user experience. And she's made me read tons of the seminal books on the subject, because she thinks (correctly) that I'll think they're cool.
It's largely left me with the belief that, if you have a system in which the users consistently press the wrong buttons, try to stick the card in the wrong slot, or stick it in upside down, it's because the designer is an idiot, not because the user is.
I'm looking at you, MBTA Charlie Card designers. And at you, morons who designed the Shaws supermarket credit card readers. Which now all have notes written in marker explaining what you have to hit where, and all the cashiers still talk you through it, because they know the system sucks.
Nyah, nyah.
"Course, it makes me wonder whether web designers and other interface designers actually do any coursework on the subject any more. I mean, my wife, who is an interface designer, has years of work on usability, accessibility, and user experience. And she's made me read tons of the seminal books on the subject, because she thinks (correctly) that I'll think they're cool.
It's largely left me with the belief that, if you have a system in which the users consistently press the wrong buttons, try to stick the card in the wrong slot, or stick it in upside down, it's because the designer is an idiot, not because the user is.
I'm looking at you, MBTA Charlie Card designers. And at you, morons who designed the Shaws supermarket credit card readers. Which now all have notes written in marker explaining what you have to hit where, and all the cashiers still talk you through it, because they know the system sucks.