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Usability 101: Errors

June 23, 2003

The usabil­ity 101 series con­tin­ues. Over the past few days, we’ve cov­ered learn­abil­ity, effi­ciency, and mem­o­ra­bil­ity. Today, we will cover errors, how well the sys­tem should pre­vent them and how it should allow recov­ery from them. Things break You may design the per­fect sys­tem but even­tu­ally, your sys­tem will fail. How it does so, how­ever, can […]