{"id":8375,"date":"2012-11-23T00:33:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T06:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8375"},"modified":"2012-11-23T00:33:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T06:33:49","slug":"windows-8-disappointing-usability-for-both-novice-power-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8375","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 \u2014 Disappointing Usability for Both Novice &#038; Power Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The new design is obviously optimized for touchscreen use (where big targets <em>are<\/em> helpful), but Microsoft is also imposing this style on its traditional PC users because all of Windows 8 is permeated by the tablet sensibility.<\/p>\n<p>How well does this work for real users performing real tasks? To find out, we invited 12 experienced PC users to test Windows 8 on both regular computers and Microsoft&#8217;s new <strong>Surface RT<\/strong> tablets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/windows-8.html\">Windows 8 \u2014 Disappointing Usability for Both Novice &amp; Power Users Jakob Nielsen&#8217;s Alertbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The underlying problem is the idea of <a class=\"old\" title=\"Alertbox: Repurposing vs. Optimized Design\" href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/repurposing.html\">recycling a single software UI for two very different classes of hardware devices<\/a>. It would have been much better to have two different designs: one for mobile and tablets, and one for the PC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new design is obviously optimized for touchscreen use (where big targets are helpful), but Microsoft is also imposing this style on its traditional PC users because all of Windows 8 is permeated by the tablet sensibility. How well does &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8375\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[348,86],"class_list":["post-8375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interfaces","tag-desktop-environment","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8376,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375\/revisions\/8376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}