usability standards (1984)

Usability Standards November 11, 1984 This was the upshot of my work with the Applications Level User Interface Committee of the Videotex Industry Association. Our aim was to "make it work". Our primary challenges included: technical platforms in flux integration with and between applications common needs, but competing standards unexplored arena of UI, definition of "usability" meta-information and tagging http://www.jcvtcs.com/-papers-tcs/usability- committee.html Note: Produced on a dot matrix printer. Classic. Before We Called It the Web The early 80's saw the "first wave" of investment in consumer-oriented interactive online digital services, known at the time as "Videotex". Videotex was Graphical, Consumer-oriented, and Easy-to-use. Videotex was the Web It was still very early days: The PC had barely been invented, the mouse was non-existant, standards were haphazard, graphics were crude and communications bandwidth was laughable. Still, we got it to happen. Ultimately though, Videotex was an idea whose time hadn't quite come just yet. But it was a visionary model of things to come.

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This was the upshot of my work with the Applications Level User Interface Committee of the Videotex Industry Association. Our aim was to "make it work". Our primary challenges included: • technical platforms in flux • integration with and between applications • common needs, but competing standards • unexplored arena of UI, definition of "usability" • meta-information and tagging VIEW MORE ON JCVTCS.COM http://www.jcvtcs.com/-papers-tcs/usability-committee.html BACKGROUND: What Was Videotex? http://www.jcvtcs.com/-experience/wayback-what-is-videotex.html Browsing History http://www.jcvtcs.com/-experience/wayback-browser-history.html Visual Delight http://www.jcvtcs.com/-experience/wayback-naplps-graphics.html TCS is Born http://www.jcvtcs.com/-experience/wayback-tcs-inc.html Before the Web http://www.jcvtcs.com/-experience/index-videotex.html This is the Portfolio of my work as a usability designer in the emerging interactive arena from 1981-87.

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Usability Standards

November 11, 1984

This was the upshot of my work with the Applications Level User Interface Committee of the Videotex Industry Association. Our aim was to "make it work". Our primary challenges included:

technical platforms in flux integration with and between applications common needs, but competing standards unexplored arena of UI, definition of "usability" meta-information and tagging

http://www.jcvtcs.com/-papers-tcs/usability-committee.html

Note: Produced on a dot matrix printer. Classic.

Before We Called It the Web The early 80's saw the "first wave" of investment in consumer-oriented interactive online digital services, known at the time as "Videotex".

Videotex was Graphical, Consumer-oriented, and Easy-to-use.

Videotex was the Web It was still very early days: The PC had barely been invented, the mouse was non-existant, standards were haphazard, graphics were crude and communications bandwidth was laughable. Still, we got it to happen.

Ultimately though, Videotex was an idea whose time hadn't quite come just yet. But it was a visionary model of things to come.

http://www.jcvtcs.com/-papers-tcs/usability-committee.html