[Sigia-l] User Experience Honeycomb

[Peter Morville]

Here's the message where I mentioned the Canadian preference for
personality over desirability:

http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/0406/0278.html


Peter Morville
President, Semantic Studios
www.semanticstudios.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Reiss [mailto:elr at e-reiss.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 9:05 AM
To: matthew at destwo.net; elr at e-reiss.com; morville at semanticstudios.com;
sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] User Experience Honeycomb


Matthew wrote (and very sensibly, I might add:

> Perhaps we need a new term for this [user-centric]. I'll suggest
"user-encrusted".

Another term? Why? Anyway, both have the user at the core, which I think
is fine. I just don't see the site owner at the core, as Peter suggests.

>I'm guessing, given the work he's done, that Peter thinks there's
enough work to do on findability that it merits its own hexagon. 

Granted, but findability and accessibility are still subsets of
usability. If you think of these three terms as menu choices, would you
use them on a website? Probably not.

> Maybe these terrorist organizations and assorted fanatics aren't
doing the "desirable" facet very well. 

Perhaps not - but they seem to be getting their message out and across
anyway. More's the pity. I just don't see desirable as a key facet.

Peter, do you want to share what your Canadian client suggested?

Cheers,
Eric

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