Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pragmatic language theory and usability theory... same same or what?

2009-08-11 Thread Soren Weimann
What's going on? I may be dumb, but the best usability test subjects are. Is the interaction design of this forum an experiment? I posted a reply to William. It's gone. I received a reply in my mail-box I cannot see in the thread??? Sorry, it just blows my mind to see something like that in a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How to Get Useful Feedback from Customer Support?

2009-08-11 Thread Soren Weimann
Depending on the type of customer support a case tracking system can be very beneficial. In this case it's a tool introduced to help the supporters, which remove a lot of the resistance towards the new tool. I've been working with a very simple one which had three levels of dropdown boxes and a

[IxDA Discuss] Pragmatic language theory and usability theory... same same or what?

2009-08-10 Thread Soren Weimann
Being a product of the school of pragmatic language theory it have always puzzled me that (some) usability folk are very eager to distinguish their field from language and semiotic theory. Honstly I don't see a big difference. By removing themselves from language theory, they are cuting