Alan asked: > [..] However after talking to them for a while it becomes clear that > they really don't know what Usability is [..] > So I ask you: Is this the price we pay for growing popularity of > Usability and User-Centered Design?
Yes, and we should fight it with (drumroll...) discount usability methods. Jakob Nielsen wrote an article on Guerrilla HCI in 1994: Guerrilla HCI: Using Discount Usability Engineering to Penetrate the Intimidation Barrier "I used the term "guerrilla HCI" in the title [..] because I believe that simplified usability methods can be a way for a company to gradually build up its reliance on systematic usability methods, starting with the bare minimum and gradually progressing to a more refined lifecycle approach." (http://www.useit.com/papers/guerrilla_hci.html) If these simplified methods come to the people with less knowledge in a well-documented and illustrated way, there is hope that they won't mess it up and bring our practice down again. And, since this is IxDA and not CHI-Web, I believe each field under the UX umbrella should have its own set of simplified methods, as I explained for IAs on my blog in "A piece of IA pie: little, micro, lite or guerrilla?" (http://www.peterboersma.com/blog/2005/02/piece-of-ia-pie-little-micro-lite-or.html or http://tinyurl.com/c7tw4). IxDA.org's Resource Library (http://resources.ixda.org/) and the IA Institute's Learning IA section (http://www.iainstitute.org/en/learn/) should be examples of collections of these well-documented, simplified methods. Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
