On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Raoul Duke <rao...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Jody Harris <imha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Wow, what a can of worms. > > Good comments, though, all the way around. > > i'd like to stick with the can of worms for a little longer... :-) > > already, people in this discussion are showing their interest and > passion about Tahoe by making suggestions about how to tackle the > problem. i would like to suggest that the suggestions need to be made > at a higher level, or another way of saying it is that the zeroth > suggestion should be: how does one rope a "real" UX person into > helping on this? otherwise i respectfully claim that you won't get the > progress you really could, and need. it is sort of a qualitative vs. > quantitative thing. (my career is as a software engineer, so i'm > speaking from experience as somebody who has wasted and seen the money > wasted due to want of real UX input.) > > I'll take that bate. I am willing to be presumptuous enough to call myself a "real user interface expert." I am a Chemical Engineer by training. I have specialized training in failure analysis as well as operability studies. I have designed and modified real-world user interfaces. Granted, my experience is with user interfaces that can result in death and dismemberment, but the lessons learned apply. Does the committee accept my qualifications as valid and useful? Jody Harris
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