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unusual facts about usability



AskoziaPBX

The project focus was to demonstrate the feasibility of building an embedded telephone system firmware upon Open Source software while providing a consumer usability experience.

Bruce Tognazzini

While working at Sun, in 1992 and 1993, he produced the Starfire video prototype, in order to give an idea of a usability centered vision of the Office of the future.

Criticism of desktop Linux

Eric S. Raymond stated that the lack of usability in many open-source and Linux tools in his essay Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story is not from lack of manuals but from a lack of thought about the users' experience.

Gigantomania

Albert Speer reports in his memoirs that Hitler's irrational obsession for the gigantic was also demonstrated in his demand for super-heavy tanks, which had limited usability in the battlefield.

Interesource

Interesource specializes in human centred design to create websites based on usability, their clients include notable companies such as Honda, BBC, London Stock Exchange, Edexcel and many others.

Kaworu Nagisa

He is sent to Nerv by Seele as a replacement pilot for Unit 02 after Asuka Langley Soryu's synchronization ratio falls below usability.

Object-oriented user interface

Jef Raskin suggests that the most important characteristic of an OOUI is that it adopts a 'noun-verb', rather than a 'verb-noun' style of interaction, and that this has several advantages in terms of usability.

Optophone

Barr and Stroud participated in improving the resolution and usability of the instrument.

Software portability

Portability in high-level computer programming is the usability of the same software in different environments.


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