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The MUSiC methods were specifically developed by the European MUSiC (Metrics  for Usability Standards in Computing) project to provide valid and reliable means of specifying and measuring usability, while also giving diagnostic feedback which enables the design to be modified to improve usability. MUSiC includes tools and techniques for measuring user performance and satisfaction.

Tomado de Measuring usability as quality of use, Software Quality Journal, 4, 115-150 (1995)

¿Así que  existe una especificación que permite cuantificar la usabilidad de las aplicaciones, y que además está documentada?
El responsable es Nigel Bevan,  que además que resulta que los más viejos del lugar hasta puede que le vieran en su visita a España.
El proyecto MUSiC  es un análisis de contexto de uso  que emplea métricas de usabilidad (User Performance Measurement Method y SUMI)

Referencias:

• Usability measurement in context
• International standards for HCI and usability
• The  Usability Engineering approach
• Practicas y necesidades de la indutria

Early (alpha) prototypes are usually built with production-intent parts, parts with the same geometry and material properties as intended for the production version of the product but not necessarily fabricated with the actual processes to be used in production. Alpha prototypes are tested to determine whether the product will work as designed and whether the product satisfies the key customer needs. Later (beta) prototypes are usually built parts supplies by the intended production processes but may not be assembled using the final assembly process. Beta prototypes are extensively evaluated internally and are also typically tested by customers in their own use environment. The goal for the beta prototypes is usually to answer questions about performance and reliability in order to identify necessary engineering change for the final product.

en Product design and development

HCI should be driving techonogical innovation not following it

en UCLIC course handbook 2007/2008

Rules can be broken, but never ignored.
en Design Elements: A graphic Style Manual

LATCH son las siglas de los modos posibles de ordenar la información.

La palabra se forma con las iniciales en ingles de los 5 modos de organización que podemos encontrar.

Location (ubicación) es la forma natural de ordenar la información.
Alphabet (alfabeto) es la forma para grandes volúmenes de información.
Time (tiempo) es la forma para acontecimientos con duración fija.
Category (categoría) es la forma para indicar relaciones entre los ítems.
Hierarchy (jerarquía) es la forma de asignar valores a la información.

A LATCH en ocasiones se le llama “Five Hat Racks“.

La autoria del termino le corresponde a Richard Saul Wurman, en su libro Information Anxiety.

Referencias:

• 5 Hat Racks

It is true that usability plays an important role in human-center design, but the principles that the guide our work are not exhausted when we have finished our ergonomic, psychological, sociological, and anthropological studies of what fits the human body and mind.Human-center design is fundamentally an affirmation of human dignity

en Design Studies: Theory and Research in graphic design