[Sigia-l] Usability Testing comments from Giga

[John O'Donovan-INTERNET]

>testing an application or code is an ENTIRELY different process than
>testing design recommendations. in once instance, failure for any
>semblance of usability can exist (code breaks). implementing a design
>choice if not tested may not provide the most desirable usability, but
>in the worst case, it will still prove usable on a basic level.

Cheekily cute, but this is not entirely true either. 

There is a difference between testing early design concepts as opposed to
testing later implementation details, but if you say you are Quality
Assuring design implementation in terms of usability then you might also QA
code in terms of effectiveness. 

The code may not be broken - just not very good.

Cheers,

jod



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