B5.11

User Experience versus Usability

Cards in this group · 4

  1. B5.11.1Usability asks whether the task is achieved; experience covers all feelings before, during, and after use
  2. B5.11.2Experience includes expectation, brand, and social context, most of which the interface does not control
  3. B5.11.3Under some experience goals, deliberate inefficiency is correct design, in direct conflict with usability goals
  4. B5.11.4Experience cannot be measured directly through task performance the way usability can; it is only inferred