> Sorry, but I disagree. This is an age old debate. But there is no question > in my mind that it is harder to write a book than to write a book review. > It > is harder to make a movie than to write a movie review.
With all due respect, this is a terrible analogy. Usability analysis and research is infinitely more involved than the writing of a movie or book review. Reviewers in these fields draw on their experience and analytical skills, of course, but they don't need to go out and establish test groups, evaluate huge amounts of data, compile findings, or any of the other things a Usability professional does. They don't have to *prove* anything. A movie reviewer simply writes his opinion. It is harder to pull > together all the myriad inputs for web ware and software (usability > inputs > among them) and design an elegant, user-friendly, simple solution that > satisfies all inputs, than it is to measure and critique the proposed > solution. If this is true, I agree with Jared that perhaps you should be an evaluator. I've done what Jared does, albeit in smaller doses, and I assure you, design is a cakewalk compared to that nightmare. If you find evaluation easy, perhaps your talent lies there and not in design. I mean no offense by this - it's a suggestion, not a judgment. I have no idea how talented of a designer you are. But I know that if something seems easy to you and hard to everyone else, you're probably either really good at that thing, or foolishly naive. Here is where I think we diverge the most. I am compelled to offer back to > you your elegant phrase, "This is just a load of crap". As far as I can > tell, you tend to think there is a design *process* that results in good > design. Get the right inputs into the process and out comes a good design. I highly doubt Jared believes this, but I'll let him speak to that. -r- ________________________________________________________________ *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://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
