Oleh, I'm sure Nielsen is flattered for your concern. :) I think what you mention will be used in conjunction to usability testing. But in order to collect analytics, you are assuming a live site or at least a beta with lots of traffic. For new interfaces or testing out a design prototype before it's been developed, you still use usability testing. I think what you are suggesting is to forget that step and just put it out there and see what happens? It's possible bottom-line fanatics will do just that and feel themselves justified for skipping usability testing altogether. But there is just some things you cannot collect from analytics alone as we all know.
And I'm not just saying this to keep myself employed, but there is will always be a place for some sort of usability testing. I would be interested in seeing what kind of data Offematica produces and would probably incorporate it into my findings along with testing results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24040 ________________________________________________________________ *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
