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From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: rules of thumb
Keywords: Human Factors Heuristics, Rules of Thumb, Usability
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Date: 28 Jun 91 02:46:05 GMT
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In article <35585@athertn.Atherton.COM> mcgregor@hemlock.Atherton.COM
(Scott McGregor) writes:
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| 	Some Simple Rules of Thumb for Designing for Usability
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Your article is too long; your rules are too many. Thus, your
"simple rules" are not themselves very usable.

I suggest reading G. A. Miller's classic little paper, "The Magical
Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for
Processing Information" (Psychological Review, 1956).


-Rob

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