Category Archives: Usability

With the help of 26 other annotators, I tried to understand more about Doug Engelbart’s visionary text “Augmenting Human Intellect”. Why didn’t this work? What went wrong?
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Big improvements of think tools are often achieved through rather small differences, such as the “targeted zooming”, or now the “semantic text view” of iMapping.
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The address bar of the browser is more and more devaluated. In IE8 beta 2, a delete icon is right where I usually click.
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A fascinating paper by Bret Victor provides an excellent analysis, and a debatable conclusion; That interactive elements are inappropriately used in information design, and that they should be reduced. I agree that they are not ideal BEFORE presentation of data but still have a great potential for knowledge work AFTER page loading.
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