Functionality and usability

1 March 1987

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM

Vol. 30 (3) , 229-233
https://doi.org/10.1145/214748.214758

Abstract

Instead of limiting functionality, usability complements functionality. It affects how and with what effectiveness a system is used, and even whether or not it is used at all.

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