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11 Examples of Ease Of Use

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Ease of use is the usability of a product, service, tool, process or environment. Ease of use applies to a context such as an umbrella that is well suited to golfing. The following are illustrative examples of ease of use.

Accessibility

Designs that are useful to as many people as possible including people with disabilities. For example, a wide entranceway with a gentle slope as opposed to stairs.

Productivity

How quickly people can accomplish goals. For example, software that can be completely configured from one screen without having to dig through dozens of menus.

Learnability

Things that are easy to learn such as a app that is immediately intuitive to most users.

Information

Information that is easy to find and understand such as a clean label on a food product.

Undo

The ability to undo unintended actions.

Convenience

Convenience such as a mobile device that fits in your pocket.

Maintenance

Easy maintenance procedures such as a mobile device with swappable parts that can be replaced by users when they break.

Extensibility

Easy improvements such as a mobile device that allows users to swap in hardware upgrades.

Compatibility

Things that effortlessly work with other things such as a printer that works from a phone without configuration or need to install an app.

Error Tolerance

Products and services that try reasonably hard to continue to operate when errors occur. For example, a web browser that doesn't crash the first time it finds some broken code on a web page.

Reliability

Endurance and durability in real world conditions such as a software service that is always up.
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The usability of a product, service, tool, process or environment.
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