[Sigia-l] Usability Testing comments from Giga

Listera listera at rcn.com
Thu Mar 27 15:03:33 EST 2003


"Thomas Vander Wal" wrote:

>> We had several threads on this issue here over the past two years, so I
>> won't rehash it. But, if every decision an IA makes has to be tested, one
>> inevitably has to question the value brought to the table.
>> 
> Cute, but no.  This would mean that software developers that test every
> application, object, and occasionally every line of code would not have
> value.

It doesn't sound like you've ever written or managed code for a living.
Designing systems/architectures is not the same thing as writing executable
code, which literally stops executing if you leave out so much as a
character or a digit.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba 





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