No iPad Envy here.

I'm sorry... the iPad is only a glorified iPhone, but bigger. It is not a replacement for the Usability of a Kindle or any other e-ink device.  It is only another option than a laptop. It is Apple's method for competing with Netbooks.  One thing the main usability features that makes the Kindle stand out over an iPad is its use of LEDs. Unlike the iPad, the Kindle doesn’t contain any interior lighting system. While this does allow the Kindle to have an exceedingly long battery life, it also means you can’t read it in the dark without a night light. The iPad, on the other hand, contains a 9.7 inch backlit LED screen which is bright enough to do social media or movie-watching.  Just like a laptop.

Usability-n-Life

We all perform usability functions.

How?? When??

Well...  just like "necessity is the mother of invention," I believe "experience is the mother of usability."  We do something enough times we will find the "usability" of it or hate the lack of it.  We all use tools to make our jobs easier.  A car to get some where, a pen instead of a pencil so we don't have to worry about sharpening it, paper plates instead of glass so we can throw them out and don't have to clean them.  I even believe the lack of usability creates waste, and "Confusion and Delay."  The words you hear in my son's favorite show Thomas the Tank Engine.  It is said by Sir Toppin Hat when he finds an engine not being useful.

Ever have to go to your knees to plug-in something?  Well electrical plugs are near the ground because things you plug into them where big and the cords for them where near the ground.  So to make plugs usable, they put them down near the ground.  Now with cell phones chargers, laptops, etc... Appliances are a lot smaller and having a plug near the ground is not usable.  Many do not realize this and life goes on.  Instead of changing and putting plugs in the middle of a wall, we still put them near the floor.

So to understand usability around us raises our awareness of it so we can make the world better and more efficient.  I am not lobbing to make a usability profession.  I am lobbying to make a profession of usability.  It effects all of us.  Whenever we use experience in life to make anything like the 6 million dollar man as more effective, efficient, faster, and better --- we are performing usability.

Hello World!

Hi everyone.  I will be using this site to post everyday moments where I encounter Usability.  I define Usability as the use of technology in our current time. 

Usability can be found in everything.  From taking a bus, to driving a car, to using a knife, and on raising a child.  Just like things in life.  Once you start looking for something, you are bound to find it.   You will see from my future post that it is everywhere and can be vital to communication and adoption of a technology.