I wonder which phone they got to use first, and which last... considering the volume button and power button is in almost EXACTLY the same place on the N95 and the iPhone how was it so much more difficult to find on the N95? Also, the order of tests within each phone also - for example if you've discovered the N95's power button, then you know how to put it on silent (same button/menu). Not to mention the fact that they used "Look and Feel" as well as "Functionality" in a Usability study... wow, some great researchers there.
Oh... and if these people were able to figure out that you had to hold down the unlabeled little black button on the top of the iPhone for 5 seconds (without any visual queues or prompting) and then slide the slider sideways, and not too fast and make sure you slide it all the way or it will "slide back" and not shut off... wow, they must be some kind of apple iPod Touch users or something because to me, that was WAY less intuitive than "pushing the button with the power symbol on it and then selecting Power Off from the menu with the D-Pad/Soft Key."
The iPhone is beautiful and the UI is gorgeous and you find yourself just doing stuff to watch it be beautiful but intuitive and easy to find things (finding the @ sign, doesn't rotate when you are in the keyboard, figuring out if it's in 'shift mode' to get capitalization or not as the letters on the keyboard are always caps, figuring out how to put caps lock on... and that's just the keyboard :D)
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Hodags @ Sep 25th 2007 2:52AM
I wonder which phone they got to use first, and which last... considering the volume button and power button is in almost EXACTLY the same place on the N95 and the iPhone how was it so much more difficult to find on the N95? Also, the order of tests within each phone also - for example if you've discovered the N95's power button, then you know how to put it on silent (same button/menu). Not to mention the fact that they used "Look and Feel" as well as "Functionality" in a Usability study... wow, some great researchers there.
Oh... and if these people were able to figure out that you had to hold down the unlabeled little black button on the top of the iPhone for 5 seconds (without any visual queues or prompting) and then slide the slider sideways, and not too fast and make sure you slide it all the way or it will "slide back" and not shut off... wow, they must be some kind of apple iPod Touch users or something because to me, that was WAY less intuitive than "pushing the button with the power symbol on it and then selecting Power Off from the menu with the D-Pad/Soft Key."
The iPhone is beautiful and the UI is gorgeous and you find yourself just doing stuff to watch it be beautiful but intuitive and easy to find things (finding the @ sign, doesn't rotate when you are in the keyboard, figuring out if it's in 'shift mode' to get capitalization or not as the letters on the keyboard are always caps, figuring out how to put caps lock on... and that's just the keyboard :D)
Just my $0.02