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Forum One Tech Blog (tech.forumone.com):
… around since 1954, and is used to predict how quickly someone can aim at target and its supported by a lot of experimental data. The Microsoft Office team used it to analyze the usability of versions of Word and paid special attention to it during theredesign of Office 2007's user interfaceFirst off, most controls in the Ribbon are labeled. This helps discoverability and usability considerably, but it also makes the buttons bigger and easier to target. As your screen resolution increases, the width of the Ribbon also increases, providing …

MarkupDancing (www.markupdancing.net):
… del.icio.us for me / 覚え書き シャノン＝ハートレーの定理 - Wikipedia saved on 2008-05-03 17:32:50Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog : Giving You Fittssaved on 2008-05-03 17:04:27Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags saved on 2008-05-03 17:04:25Shorewalker.com - A flying menu attack can wound your navigation saved on 2008-05-03 17:04:25 …

Handful of Nothing (www.marceloeduardo.com):
… have read that more than 5 times before, you will like the way it was written and illustrated. A nice bookmark for those who are “consulted” a lot in the Ux field :) For those who are starting, and wanted more, maybe “real world” view of it :What about MS office ?and last but not least the graphical view at Mind Hack. And in those links you will be able to find some small pearls, also worth bookmarking : here (on Hick’s law, here on Gom and also this on the Power law of practice …

Design pending (www.designpending.com):
… områden som intresserar mig. Jag har framförallt genom projekt, skolade kollegor och en hel massa böcker, och inte minst internet, byggt min lilla verktygslåda med argument och metoder som jag använt mig av på mina jobb. Idag stötte jag på enförklaring till Fitts lag, som jag alltid varit nyfiken på, men varje gång jag försökt läsa om den så har jag stoppats av en matematisk formel som ofta kommit i början av kapitlet/artikeln/webbsidan.Den här artikeln hade också formeln ganska tidigt, men den började …

Zusch Login (www.zuschlogin.com):
… what the Ribbon has done to the conventional toolbar: it has labels for each toolbar-equivalent (the tabs) and groups and labels commands within each toolbar. Making commonly needed controls bigger may also make them easier to find, as well has havingefficiency advantagesaccording to Fitts law. Result: Win. …

AlterSlash ~ the unofficial SlashDot digest (alterslash.org):
… and I actually prefer it now to older versions. I recall a similar concept used in CorelDraw, where specific toolbars would change based on which particular drawing tool was currently in use, and what type of objects in the drawing were selected.http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/08/22/711808.aspxI’ve read some documentation (some interesting videos too, but I can’t seem to find them) on the justification for the shift in thinking - about how, for example, the explosion in the sheer volume of functionality makes packing every single …

lequyduong.net (www.lequyduong.net):
… tin tưởng rằng người dùng sẽ chịu bỏ thời gian làm quen với nó? Đó là những câu hỏi tớ đặt ra ngay từ khi mới dùng thử bản Beta 2 cách đây không lâu. Hôm nay vô tình được đọc bài viết “Giving you Fitts …

Latest entries | One More Blog (eric.themoritzfamily.com):
… Fitts’ lawFitts lawis a well know model in ergonomics and user interfaces. Granted I’m not a usability expert by no means but I doubt you have to be one to understand Fitts. This is an over simplification of the law, but I …