[Sigia-l] Web Developers

[Bill Killam]

This is not as back and white as it's being made out to be.  If I'm, not
mistaken, the "D" in UCD stands for design - not testing.  Yes, there are
many in "usability people" who only test.  Just as there are many designers,
who simply don't.  User-centered design requires both design and user
research.  So, it depends on the firm and their capabilities.  I have some
designers who are lousy test facilitators but can do heuristic evaluation
and other forms of testing.  And I have some test people who can help
redesign but are not good at designing from scratch.

Bill
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Bill Killam, MA CHFP
President, User-Centered Design, Inc.
20548 Deerwatch Place
Ashburn, VA 20147
email: bkillam at user-centereddesign.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf
Of Jared M. Spool
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 10:57 PM
To: Listera
Cc: SIGIA-L
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Web Developers

At 05:18 PM 2/5/2006, Listera wrote:
>We do different things: usability folk usually rectify a problem *after*
the
>fact; I design stuff so that there won't be much to rectify *to begin
with*.

I won't speak for all usability folk, but, at UIE, we don't have the goal 
to *rectify* problems. Our objective is to learn whether those who design 
stuff (you?) actually achieve the goals they set out to achieve with the 
designs they create. Hopefully, we can all learn from that experience and 
it will inform and improve everyone's designs going forward.

I should've stated I was assuming the goals of this page was to provide a 
directory of resources to anyone interested in the topics it pointed to. 
That's the context under which I inspected it. Whether that was the 
designers original intent or not is something I'm not privy to. However, it 
was the context that the thread started under.

Jared

Jared M. Spool, Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering
4 Lookout Lane, Unit 4d, Middleton, MA 01949
978 777-9123   jspool at uie.com  http://www.uie.com
Blog: http://www.uie.com/brainsparks 


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