{"id":549886,"date":"2006-08-18T07:11:53","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T07:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549886-putting-user-friendly-back-into-usability.html"},"modified":"2006-08-18T07:11:53","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T07:11:53","slug":"putting-user-friendly-back-into-usability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549886-putting-user-friendly-back-into-usability.html","title":{"rendered":"Putting user-friendly back into usability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Digital technology may be incredibly smart, but it makes its users feel incredibly useless, says User Vision, a consultancy that helps companies make their software and other products easier to use. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Tenth on the user-unfriendly items list are nondisposable nappies. The disposable variety ranks as the second-most user friendly gadget, topped by \u201carmed\u201d corkscrews and followed by ready-tied bow ties. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The examples of how to please or irritate consumers were highlighted this week to launch a local Making Life Easy competition. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The contest leads up to World Usability Day on November 14, which promotes user-centred designs and is being supported by events in 30 countries. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">For SA\u2019s contest individuals, companies and educational institutes can enter software, websites, marketing material and even architectural designs they believe are extraordinarily user friendly. Since the contest is supported by the Computer Society of SA, entrants must have used IT to create their designs. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Details are available from www.worldusabilityday.co.za. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cEvery person who uses something has the right for it to be useable, whether it\u2019s software or a wine glass,\u201d says Darelle van Greunen, the co-ordinator of World Usability Day SA. \u201cUsability isn\u2019t a trivial matter; it affects everybody\u2019s lives. Our aim is to create an awareness among designers who design for the sake of design without considering end-users,\u201d she says. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Van Greunen, a technology lecturer at Nelson Mandela University, tells her students that if their parents cannot use the software they are developing, it is a failure. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><em>Inet-Bridge<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO recorders have earned the dubious distinction of being the most unusable items invented, closely followed by child car seats, digital TV systems and digital cameras. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}