[Sigia-l] Testing your own sites

[Adrian Howard]

On 4 Feb 2007, at 23:38, Jared M. Spool wrote:
[snip]
> I've not worked in a design shop, but it seems to me you shouldn't
> have to sell it to do it. After all, there are probably many aspects
> of your work you don't have to sell, like doing sketches, thinking
> creatively, learning about the customer's problem and existing
> systems, holding meetings, and using computers. Conducting user
> research to learn about the needs of the customer should just be a
> given in the process.
>
> But it's not my world and I won't claim that I understand how the
> sausages are made.

That's pretty much the way I look at it, but I guess I come more from  
a developer perspective. I don't charge separately for the usability  
work in a project just like I wouldn't charge separately for unit  
testing, or refactoring, or the maintainance costs of running the  
source control system.

That's just what you have to do to build a good product. If that's  
too much money, or you want to build it a different way, feel free to  
find somebody else.

Cheers,

Adrian