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[Jared M. Spool]

At 12:01 AM 2/6/2006, Listera wrote:
>Jared M. Spool:
>
> > I won't speak for all usability folk, but, at UIE, we don't have the goal
> > to *rectify* problems.
>
>I didn't mean to imply that you would (re)design and I pointed out elsewhere
>that you explicitly said you didn't. However, it's nearly impossible, given
>the nature of the business, to simply point out the failings of the design
>and not offer (at least strategic) indications in the direction of remedies,
>just as you have done:
>
>"...so one way to solve it is to have descriptive content under each
>category to explain it."
>
>Assuming you'd offer this to the client, that's clearly a "rectification" of
>the problem you discovered, regardless of whoever gets to implement it.

I think there is a difference between a generalized suggested approach and 
a specific implementation. I would think a "rectification" would be closer 
to the latter, which, as you correctly state, we leave for those skilled at 
such things.

Jared


Jared M. Spool, Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering
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