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Usability sketches

Explore sketches, drawings, and illustrations that simplify ideas related to Usability.

Affordance illustration: one person effortlessly pushes open a door with a flat plate while a victim of poor design struggles to pull open a door with a bar handle and a discreet push signAffordanceHappy Talk Must Die example: explained with an example web page with lots of useless happy talk and a person thinking blah blah as they look for the payments buttonHappy talk must dieThe curb-cut effect: A range of people of all ages next to a crossing, road, and park show how the curb cut design for disabilities benefits everyoneThe curb-cut effectCognitive overhead5 user tests finds 85% problemsOmit unnecessary words
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