[Sigia-l] Best Quote from Seattle "Usability 2.0" talk

[Will Parker]

Regarding Don Norman, Jared Spool said:

"I went to Don's house for dinner one time. All I can tell you about  
the man that brought the word 'affordance' into common use is that he  
has to have a label on his doorbell because otherwise nobody can tell  
how to press it."

Jared also described how the differences between EBay shoppers and  
the rest of humanity made them particularly useful for discovering  
gross usability problems.

I'm told Ben and Jared's slides will be made available on the Puget  
Sound SIGCHI site in the next few days. (http://www.pssigchi.org)

- Will

Will Parker
macartisan at mac.com
http://www.channelingcupertino.com

"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is  
water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries  
and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than  
rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know." - Groucho Marx