[Sigia-l] Usability testing into the dustbin?

[Lord, Ralph]

Larry wrote in his usabilitynews article:

"He (Rolf Mollich) shared a hopeful vision of the future in which robust and
disciplined design processes avoided most usability problems from the
outset." (shared the vision with Larry and others)

Having read lots of Larry's work, I don't think he'd argue that you never
show an application/product to a user for feedback, but is really arguing
against what Ziya characterized as "test often, test every Tuesday
afternoon, change the variables and test again; 1/2 tbsp of use-case dust
and a dash of RUP moonbeams"

Derek R wrote:

"The melding of what we know as 'usability testing' with 'design process'
(Matt 5:37) is the answer we are looking for."

Against all odds I was both able to understand Derek and to agree with him!

RL




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Booher, Craig [mailto:cbooher at kcc.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 9:45 AM
> To: sigia-l at mail.asis.org
> Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] Usability testing into the dustbin?
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> "Ziya" wrote:
> 
> >Do you remember the sketch "Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber" Steve
> Martin
> >played in Saturday Night Live? The barber would decide it 
> must be "time 
> >for another bloodletting" for a girl emaciated from prior 
> bloodletting, 
> >thereby killing her.
> 
> George Washington experienced the same technique with the same result.
> 
> Craig S. Booher
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