On Dec 20, 2007, at 6:15 PM, Joseph Selbie wrote: >> I understand. But this doesn't really explain your analogy that a >> Usability professional is like a movie critic, so I'm standing by >> my statement. >> > > I wasn’t trying to say that being a usability professional is like > being a movie critic in terms of *specific* methods. I was using > the movie critic as one example of the age old debate as to whether > being able to critique, evaluate, measure, analyze a domain, > bestows on one the ability to design or create at an equally high > level in that domain. My answer is no.
BUT USABILITY PRACTITIONERS DO NOT JUST CRITIQUE AND EVALUATE. THERE'S A LOT MORE TO THE JOB. Your constant insistence that this is the extent of the fields responsibility is, to me, infuriating. Jared Jared M. Spool User Interface Engineering 510 Turnpike St., Suite 102, North Andover, MA 01845 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +1 978 327 5561 http://uie.com Blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks ________________________________________________________________ *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
