[Sigia-l] Rant about bad IA practice.

[Ziya Oz]

Stewart Dean:

> Get some persepective on this.

At one time:

'The average user' didn't know a web browser from a lawnmower.
'The average user' didn't know what a browser-based email account was.
'The average user' didn't know what audio/video stream was all about.
'The average user' didn't know how to use IM or web-based telephony.
'The average user' didn't know how to buy books, tickets, music, toys and
any number of 2,398,674 kinds of merchandise online.

At one time, the media hyped the hell out of the Super Information Highway.

At one time, 'the average user' was a university researcher banging keys on
a green-on-black terminal.

At one time, somebody somewhere worried that the introduction of electricity
would ruin humankind.

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Ziya

Usability >  Simplify the Solution
Design >  Simplify the Problem