Usability Applied to Life

From the WebWord mailing list, usability guy Chad Lundgren writes about usability principles appled to real life. For instance:

3. For a long time, I keep my wallet and keys in my back pockets. This added to pick-pocket paranoid in crowded places,and made fast food drive-thrus arduous.

I read an article mentioning that European men tend not to use their back pockets, more for vanity than practicality, but I started using my front pockets only, and I’ve never looked back. So to speak.

I’ve considered that approach (wallet in front pocket), but I just don’t have the pockets to spare :(. With my mobile phone and my keys in my front-right pocket, and my Palm V and my uni-ball in my front-left pocket, I have no where but my back pockets for my wallet :-/.

And, I disagree with Chad’s #8, where he advocates absolute paths for web pages. The problem with using absolute paths is that it makes changing the “elevation” of the site (as a whole) impossible. For instance, relative paths would allow for the change from “sitename.com” to “sitename.com/directory/” without much trouble (but absolute paths would not).

And, for what it’s worth, my favorite line was “ […] they are keys, from one point of view”. ;)

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