What is Usability?

Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal. Usability can also refer to the methods of measuring usability and the study of the principles behind an object’s perceived efficiency or elegance.

Usability in the computer world

In human-computer interaction and computer science, usability usually refers to the elegance and clarity with which the interaction with a computer program or a web site is designed.

Why Usability?

Complex computer systems are finding their way into everyday life, and at the same time the market is becoming saturated with competing brands. This has led to usability becoming more popular and widely recognized in recent years as companies see the benefits of researching and developing their products with user-oriented instead of technology-oriented methods. By understanding and researching the interaction between product and user, the usability expert can also provide insight that is unattainable by traditional company-oriented market research. For example, after observing and interviewing users, the usability expert may identify needed functionality or design flaws that were not anticipated.

What we do?

At Therap we continuously think about our users need and how to ease the use of our application. We interact and take feedback from our users to make the application more user friendly every single minute. At the usability garage we have people from different departments (e.g. designers, developers, management, marketing etc.) working together to understand the users need and figuring out the best possible solution for it. Our goal here is to make our application usable even to a novice user.