Thursday, March 11, 2010

What is Usability in Life?

We all perform usability functions.
How?? When??
Well...I see it is as product of experience.  We do something enough times we will find the "usability" of it.  We all use tools to make our jobs easier.  A car to get some where, A pen instead of a pencil so we don't have to worry about sharpening it, paper plates instead of glass so we can throw them out and we don't have to clean them.

Usability has actually been around for years.  Ever have to go to your knees to plug-in something?  Well electrical plugs are near the ground because things you plug into them where big and the cords for them where near the ground.  So to make plugs usable, they put them down near the ground.  Now with cell phones chargers, laptops, etc... Appliances are a lot smaller and having a plug near the ground is not usable.  Many do not realize this and life goes on.  Instead of changing and putting plugs in the middle of a wall, we still put them near the floor.

So understand usability around us raises our awareness of it so we can make the world better and more efficient.  I am not lobbing to make a usability profession.  I am lobbying to make a profession of usability.  It effects all of us.  Whenever we use experience in life to make anything more efficiently, faster, and better --- we are performing usability on something.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Usability in Life

Why did I start this site?  Well I have a strong interest in Usability.  I am breathing.  So I am starting to see usability in everything I do.  Many people do not know what usability is.  So to answer the question:: I am maintaining this blog to share my experiences of observing usability in my daily life.