[Sigia-l] Nielsen: Design vs. Usability -- the straw man attack

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

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> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Ziya Oz
> Sent: 30 May 2007 09:53
> To: SIGIA-L
> Subject: [Sigia-l] Nielsen: Design vs. Usability -- the straw 
> man attack
> 

<snip>

> "(Remember, new ideas can be tested at low cost through 
> techniques like paper prototypes.)"
> 
> Yep, design hasn't moved one iota across 
> spatial/temporal/haptic/etc planes since 1952, where Jakob 
> seems to be permanently stuck.
> 
> ........

A colleague of mine went to one of the recent NN/g UX days in London.
While waiting for the first session to start, she was leafing though
their research papers on sale in the foyer and noticed though that none
of them appeared to have a date to indicate when the research was done.
One of the papers described the results of user research into teenagers'
use of the web. A screenshot inside the document showed "2001" in a
copyright statement. Hmmm.

Jonathan




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