Civic design bibliography


Universal usability

Why the article is helpful

  • Cope with technology variety by supporting the 100 to 1 range of hardware, software, and network access speeds
  • Accommodation of enormous diversity of users
  • Bridging the gap between what users know and need to know

 

The article encouraged universal access to information in computers to empower every citizen, this means more than 90% of all households should be successful users of information and communications services at least once a week. The main focus was to bridge the gap between what users know and what they need to know, accommodation to a enormous diversity of users, and to cope with technology variety supporting a range of hardware, software and network access speeds. There is a need to require a more intense commitment to lowering costs, coupled with user research and engineering.

 

Links to article

 

Shneiderman, B. (2000). Universal usability. Communications of the ACM, 43(5), 84-91.