Todd wrote: > My first response to you would be how did you arrive > at your view/perspective on usability?
My initial exposure to usability was self-taught through Nielsen's Designing Web Usability and Krug's Don't Make Me Think. At Carnegie Mellon's School of Design, they break design research into three fluid phases: exploratory, generative and evaluative, with the last focused on usability testing. None of the phases exist in a bubble and they all feed back into the design process. For me, usability mostly involves guerilla cubicle testing, though I've done a few more formal studies; one for a mobile wayfinding system and one for a consumer electronics project. Both involved people with no prior exposure to the design, so learnability was key to both. Both also stretched over the course of a week with rapid design iteration between subjects. In all cases that I'm familiar with, usability testing bears more resemblance to a cross-sectional study than a longitudinal study. // jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=26788 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
