[Sigia-l] Usability Testing comments from Giga

[Donna M. Fritzsche]

I have seen virtual reality and 3D mockups of building flow - but I 
dont know they were actually used for testing.  My guess is that they 
were used for informal heuristic evaluation.
Does anyone know?

- Donna

At 10:08 AM -0500 3/27/03, Richard_Dalton at vanguard.com wrote:
>Daniel R Drop wrote:
>>  This discussion is resurfacing a related question I have about
>>  information architecture.  Will the field of information architecture
>get
>>  to a point where we have developed sufficient theory with supporting
>>  practical frameworks that usability testing will becoming less
>important?
>>
>>  We often compare IA with building architects.  I am under the impression
>>  that building architects do not have usability testing for their
>>  structures. Surely there are building architects who design horribly
>>  unusable spaces. On the other hand, there are very experienced building
>>  architects who can design pleasant, usable spaces without having to
>>  resort to usability testing. Can our profession get there?
>
>Good question. I think a lot of buildings would have benefitted from some
>usability testing - but how do you do it? You can ask users for their
>opinions or how they "think" they'd use a building - but without building
>it its difficult to actually observe them. Its much easier in the field of
>I/A to build a prototype and watch them use it, this might account for the
>fact that usability testing is more prevalent in I/A than Building Arch.
>
>  - Richard Dalton
>
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