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Usability 101: Learnability

June 17, 2003

The con­cept of learn­abil­ity is a key one to usabil­ity design. Basi­cally, it boils down to how easy a sys­tem is to learn. This, in turn, can be bro­ken down into five com­po­nents: famil­iar­ity con­sis­tency gen­er­al­iz­abil­ity pre­dictabil­ity sim­plic­ity Let’s delve fur­ther into each of those in more details. Famil­iar­ity The con­cept of famil­iar­ity is almost self explanatory. […]