[Sigia-l] Usability Testing

[Donna Maurer]

Eric Scheid wrote:
> but then what of those designers who claim the right to do usability?
>   
So that comes back to my eternal grumpy question....

What the hell is 'doing usability'???

Usability is a quality attribute. 'Usable' is an adverb.

I'm a designer. I design things that are usable (and on time, in budget, 
hopefully somewhat pleasurable and meet my client's goals - all good 
quality attributes). I don't need no 'usability people' to give me 
out-of-context, impractical, unfeasible, inexperienced advice based on 
watching a very small number of people doing a leading set of scenarios 
in some sort of learnability test...

Grump!

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Donna Maurer
Maadmob Interaction Design
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