On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 12:47 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Designers screw up of course and I look at usability testing as a QA > process to catch those mistakes. Valuable, but not a substitute for > selecting the right operations that the software supports in the first > place.
Hmm... but you should be doing usability testing from day one to find out what those operations are. (That's not to mention the usability testing you've done beforehand to verify that you're actually trying to design something useful in the first place...) > The first-order problem then is how do we get quality design up front, > before the code is written. By usability testing those designs, of course :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
