The difficulty of being easy
Posted on December 4th, 2005 in Usability | 8 Comments »
A Xerox engineer explained at least part of the problem when he said, “It’s really hard to be easy.”
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8 Responses
Keep it simple: It’s really hard to be easy
[…]How about this scenario: You fly off to a vacation, renting a car at the airport. After you get going, you spend the rest of the afternoon trying to figure out how to turn on the windshield wipers, or the lights, or the air/conditioner.
The…
[...] From The Lompoc Record: The difficulty of being easy (via WebWord). [...]
In the last rental car I had, we never did figure out if the mirrors were adjustable from inside – luckily pushing them from outside did work.
Digital cable? Now it takes the dance of the seven veils to record on the VCR. I just resort to using the VCR on the TV without the digital box rather than go through all that misery. Of course if we just add the optional DVR service at Heaven Knows What Price, that would fix that little problem. It seems if you have a monopoly, negative usability is the incentive.
That’s hardly a well-written article. Some random person said some vague quote that’s kind of related to the story. The story mentions some survey and there’s no summary of results.
Really, is it too much to ask that people publishing news have some sort of journalism training?
later, every day I went to upgrade, and earned rohan crone. Sometimes I felt that it is not very fun, until I recognized her, she named dream of dance, I understand that the real fun of Rohan.
As usual, there are games to task; of course, this is no exception, because this can be upgraded! Thus the results and get more money! Of course, you can also buy LOTRO Gold!
And when the players arrived at five times, but also to their stores to buy music to play all kinds of music (on the map that has a place to buy guitar). You can also buy Lord Of The Rings Gold to achieve your strong!
thanks