[Sigia-l] "Usability Must Die"?

[David Heller]

In defense of Chris there is a link at the far bottom of this page that
says Why there is no third P ... There is a link in the line but the
link (not in his defense) seems to be broken.

I think I agree w/ the spirit of what he is saying. It is a different
way to say what Aaron Markus was saying in Interactions. "it's User
Interface Design stupid."

But I do disagree w/ his take on Experience design. I do think that
Experience design is to UID as UCD is. Experience Design takes UCD and
says that there is more to design than just the user. There is an entire
experience that isn't necessarily centered around the user, but impacts
the user nonetheless. To me it isn't a premium service at all, but
rather just a different take on how you think about people and
computers. I don't find it distracting to the other issues and it is not
trying to segregate the other groups, in fact it is trying to unify
them.

Otherwise, I think I agree w/ most of it.

In fact I think IA, Interaction, HCI, etc should all die as well. (ok,
maybe not IA) ... ;-)

-- dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hill [mailto:rhill at asis.org] 
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 1:26 PM
To: sigia-l
Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] "Usability Must Die"?


[Forwarded because of HTML in text.  Dick Hill]

| * Remember the three Ps:
| Its always about People, and it should always be done with Passion.

1) People
2) Passion
3) ?

I think the fact that s/he can't count -- not to mention spell or 
capitalize properly -- says volumes about the rest of the observations.

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