Tuesday, 19 February 2008

quick chat usability and psychology



Quick Chat #6: Usability and Psychology

My personal belief is that, with grassroots empowerment provided by

web 2.0 and mashups, the concept of usability in applications grows in

importance and that usability could go much further then how aesthetic

a web page is. There is a rich discipline in psychology that has been

applied in several other industries and seems ripe to apply to the

world of new collaborative tools. Paul, a colleague of mine showed me

a presentation on this that re-emphasized the power of colour (amongst

several other concepts) as a means for recollection and understanding.

Unfortunately his copy was in black and white, but I did get the

concepts... Looking forward to the colour version!


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