[Sigia-l] "Getting the design right, and getting the right design"

[Donna Maurer]

Listera wrote:
> For nuggets of wisdom...or usability dirt. :-)
>
> As is evident, I don't take design bigotry and pseudo-scienticism of Jakob
> and ilk all that seriously, but I would like to see a theoretician of
> usability tackle how their profession relates to strategic aspects of design
> and architecture, if at all.
>   
My opinion is that it doesn't relate. If you are doing the strategic 
aspects of design and architecture, you aren't doing 'usability' (even 
if you happen to have a usability role or work in a usability team).

And that's my opinion as a person who once primarily did usability and 
now doesn't so much. It doesn't make it lesser, just a different beast 
to strategy and design.

-- 
Donna Maurer
Maadmob Interaction Design
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