#usability

#usability

In fact, the subtitle is more descriptive: "In which a G-Suite user navigates the upside-down world of Exchange, 365, and SharePoint." It's a fascinating glimpse into how horrifyingly complex, even irrational, the Microsoft 365 software stack looks to someone who is used to the Gmail way of handling such business communications: groupware, as it was called in the ancient times. Email, user accounts, file sharing, and so on.

A prototype app called Pixeltone developed by Adobe Research and the University of Michigan showed the possibility of using voice control and touch for photo editing. The top comment on the YouTube video demonstrating the capability is this one, left by a viewer 12 years ago: "Why so much hate? It isn't for the "real" photographer, but for my dad, that sometimes uses Photoshop; this is great."

Speaking at GovCIO's Health IT Summit, Dr. Neil Evans - acting program executive director of VA's Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office - said the focus of the modernization project still remains on usability and operational effectiveness of the system, although he added that achieving those goals will also set the stage for the potential embrace of other tech solutions moving forward.

Take a look at the picture above. Countless dials, each presumably conveying critical information about the health of a nuclear reactor. Is this well designed? From the "functionality" perspective - yes, it works. It does what it is intended to do. But from a perspective of human error it couldn't be worse. The design makes it almost impossible to detect changes, to identify critical components, and most importantly, to make decisions based on the information. The result will be an inevitable catastrophe.

iPhone users have been baffled to discover a secret design element that has been hidden in plain sight for years. In a viral post on X (formerly Twitter), one user has shared their strange discovery about the iPhone alarm. When you set an alarm on an iPhone, it looks as if you are spinning a wheel with the numbers one through 12 written around the circumference. However, users have now discovered that this isn't really the case.

There are ten people in the world who could decide tomorrow to make IT better, and it would become better. Not better for some, not better for a while, but better for all and forever.

While a minor update on the surface, this change is a welcome one for usability. By removing the gear icon - which many users overlooked or misunderstood - and replacing it with a plainly labeled 'Settings' section, Google is making the platform more intuitive, especially for new or less technical users.

The volume of each room is so massive that we had to be specific about each piece we put in the room.