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Some ergonomic links

I'm attending the The virtual conference on Responsive Web Design and the speech of JD Graffam. He's speaking about little details, specifically microinteractions. You won't notice how important are details, until you think they deserve time. And study. He remebered me of Luke Wroblewski, an UX expert I've stumbled on professionally, because of his work for a conference about my business. So I tought, let's start adding some nice links: Luke Wroblewski JD Graffam That's all for now, I'll update this list as soon as I'll find something moving. I mean, really interesting.

Traffic Lights and my Keyboard - Back to the very basics of ergonomics

Generally, in Western Culture Generally, red is used to mean "stop" or "danger," green to mean "go" or that the system is running normally, and orange to signify "caution" - Introduction to ergonomics, Third Edition By R.S. Bridger Double signals. To ease the creation of the mental maps, some interfaces double the signals for the users. A well-known example is the traffic light. Easy to color-blind people, the signal resides both in the position and in the color. The classic traffic light: the signal to stop is communicated by both the position and the color (in the western culture red is used to mean "stop" or "danger"). The more signals you add to convey the same message, the clearer the message. For pedestrian traffic lights, it's commonly used a system with three coherent signals: color (red for stop, green for go), position (top for stop, bottom for go), shape (a man walking, walk, a ...