{"id":133,"date":"2010-06-22T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2010-06-22T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T01:09:00","slug":"thoughts-towards-universally-applicable-usability-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/thoughts-towards-universally-applicable-usability-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts towards universally applicable usability guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by spending a few minutes trying to work out how to open a ringbinder:<\/p>\n<p>Write out and\/or diagram simple instructions for your product.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>If the instructions take more than three steps, your product isn&#8217;t usable; redesign it.<\/li>\n<li>If the instructions don&#8217;t actually match your product, quit smoking the good stuff on company time and write\/diagram them again.<\/li>\n<li>If users need both the written instructions AND the diagrams, then the product is more-or-less usable, but not user-friendly.<\/li>\n<li>If users need the written instructions OR the diagrams but not both, then the product is somewhat user-friendly, but not sufficiently so as to justify entitling the instructions with &#8220;For easy operation&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>If users don&#8217;t need any instructions, THEN the product is user-friendly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Other thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by spending a few minutes trying to work out how to open a ringbinder: Write out and\/or diagram simple instructions for your product. If the instructions take more than three steps, your product isn&#8217;t usable; redesign it. If the instructions don&#8217;t actually match your product, quit smoking the good stuff on company time and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[36,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}