[Sigia-l] IA and medium
Andrew Hinton
ahinton at symetri.com
Mon May 13 23:17:50 EDT 2002
It's one of those unfortunate labels that you just want to reach out and
rearrange.
Around here, we have lots of roads with signs labeling them as "Unsafe
Driving Enforcement Area" --- the cops are so bored, they're making sure we
drive like lunatics.
::ZiyaOz at earthlink.net::wrote on 5/13/02 5:41 PM:
>> IBM is a big advocate of this term at http://www.ibm.com/easy.
>
> Notice the second item on that menu? You just gotta love it: 'User
> Engineering'. Choice terminology from a company that brought us (OK, tried
> to) the paragon of UCD: OS/2 and Warp :-) 'User engineering', what a
> concept! Pseudo-science run amok.
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Andrew Hinton
work: ahinton at symetri.com // symetri information architecture
pers: andrewhinton at mac.com // www.drewspace.com
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