[Sigia-l] Nielsen: It's the end!

[Jeremy Harrington]

Skot,

I don't follow how you jump from the Jakob statement to the Noman comment,
what's the connection?  I think there is a tremendous amount to learned, or
at a minimum referenced, in the Norman book that is still applicable today.
Just because the book was published in '88 doesn't mean the content is not
still timely or relevant today, it may just take a bit more imagination to
apply the ideas to modern concepts, than say a brand-spanking new AJAX tome.

-Jeremy


On 10/13/05 10:39 AM, "Skot Nelson" <skot at penguinstorm.com> wrote:

> 
> On Oct-13-2005, at 6:48 AM, Timothy Karsjens wrote:
> 
>> I mostly think that his statements and opinions are not well
>> researched
> 
> I don't think this is true - Jakob's done too much work for too long
> for me to believe it.
> 
> I do think Usability and Human Interaction testing is a prime example
> of testing that can be severely skewed by methodology; I have no
> trouble imagining that Jakob is using data methodologies at this point.
> 
> At my last job my boss ordered a copy of Norman's book "The Design of
> Everyday Things"; I laughed pretty hard - not a bad book, but it was
> published when - in 1988? A bit out of date, and nice to be working
> somewhere that was only 17 years behind.
> --
> Skot Nelson
> skot at penguinstorm.com
> 
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