Computer systems shouldn't make us feel bad. But they often do. Contextual usability methods can help discover social defects in user experience.| Nielsen Norman Group
Articles explaining the heuristic evaluation technique for assessing usability, from Nielsen Norman Group, a firm specializing in User Experience Research, Training, and Consulting.| Nielsen Norman Group
Enhancement features take advantage of special user or device capabilities and need to be backed up by more traditional implementations of the same interaction.| Nielsen Norman Group
Exposure to a stimulus influences behavior in subsequent, possibly unrelated tasks. This is called priming; priming effects abound in usability and web design.| Nielsen Norman Group
“Command line interfaces. Once that was all we had. Then they disappeared, replaced by what we thought was a great advance: GUIs. GUIs were - and still are - valuable, but they fail to scale to the demands of today's systems. So now command line interfaces are back again, hiding under the name of search. Now you see them, now you don't. Now you see them again. And they will get better and better with time: mark my words, that is my prediction for the future of interfaces.” [1] Don Norman ...| Replit Blog
Direct-manipulation UIs support interaction with visible objects of interest via physical, reversible, incremental actions that receive immediate feedback.| Nielsen Norman Group