[Sigia-l] User Test Cost - Does this sound reasonable?

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Brian Ghidinelli:

> Untrained developers may not be able to offer any great usability
> insights but simply exposing more developers to the cold, hard reality
> of user difficulties will help change their perspective on the
> applications they build.

Yes, on the apps *they* BUILD. Not on the apps *we* DESIGN.

> In my experience, it has helped eliminate the oftentimes adversarial attitude
> between designers and developers.

There really shouldn't be any adversarial attitude between the two because
they should be focusing on *different* areas: design vs. implementation.
 
> I think we forget that us "forward-thinking" types are the incredible
> minority in the bigger picture.

Yes, sadly.

Ziya
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