Legal Gadgets: Outlook for 2005
“An array of silver devices spilled from the box, all with ridiculously small buttons and impossibly complicated operating manuals. Understanding all of their functions and features within two weeks was clearly a non-starter, so they were immediately plunged into the ultimate usability test. If I could make them work, I reasoned, then anyone could.”
The quote that I pulled above reminds me of the phrase out of box quality. Why don’t people talk about out of box usability?