ShinyLight Development » Usability Engineering http://www.shinylight.com Web Development and Other Goodness in the World of a Software Engineer. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:18:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Why Cell Phones are Annoying http://www.shinylight.com/2009/10/04/why-cell-phones-are-annoying/ http://www.shinylight.com/2009/10/04/why-cell-phones-are-annoying/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:08:42 +0000 Dan http://www.shinylight.com/?p=304 Taking the train every morning and night, I gotta deal with loud conversations and pain in the butt ringtones constantly. I couldn’t help googling why we all find cell-talk annoying. Here’s a piece by Jakob Nielsen, the usability guru:

Summary:

Bystanders rated mobile-phone conversations as dramatically more noticeable, intrusive, and annoying than conversations conducted face-to-face. While volume was an issue, hearing only half a discussion also seemed to up the irritation factor….

Read the entire piece, “Why Mobile Phones are Annoying.”

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