RE: [backstage] Re: BBC iPad application usability
More on this at http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Usability-expert-faults-iPad-user- interface-calls-it-whacky/1273592091 I take everything Nielsen preaches with a LARGE bag of salt. When he makes his own site usable I might pay more attention to his proclamations ;)
Re: [backstage] Re: BBC iPad application usability
On 12 May 2010 15:23, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote: More on this at http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Usability-expert-faults-iPad-user-interface-calls-it-whacky/1273592091 I take everything Nielsen preaches with a LARGE bag of salt. When he makes his own site usable I might pay more attention to his proclamations ;) There are some really important points in the document, however. If they were about a website, they would be poor, but on a super new device they are shocking. -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
[backstage] Re: BBC iPad application usability
More on this at http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Usability-expert-faults-iPad-user-interface-calls-it-whacky/1273592091http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Usability-expert-faults-iPad-user-interface-calls-it-whacky/1273592091?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed:+bn+(Betanews+Full+Content+Feed+-+BN) On 11 May 2010 08:11, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: The Lord Jakob Nielsen has tested the iPad for usability and found it wanting of Affordances http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/affordances_and.html. Of the BBC iPad application: Unfortunately, apps aimed at browsing, such as... BBC do not provide a search box on the iPad. Several users had trouble finding the health or the sports section of BBC: those topics unfortunately were accessible only in landscape mode... the within-page navigation bar is transformed into a left-side panel. http://www.nngroup.com/reports/mobile/ipad/ -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
