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Posting Date: August 09, 2002
 

WebWord Weblog Posting 652 -- "You can almost never have perfect usability for a product that's new to the market and has never been seen or used before. Wasting your time on perfect usability could be a costly mistake in terms of business. When a product is new, you can only guess at how it's going to be used by regular customers and make it usable by those guesses. More usability can be built into the product as usage patterns are observed and also how the requirements change." (Comments: Scroll down to MadMan's comments.)

 

  

Reader Comments...
 

A bit wordy. Let me try: Iterative design.

Posted by: on August 9, 2002 12:13 PM

 

MadMan - What definition of "usability" are you using? How does this relate to the ROI article?

Posted by: Ron Zeno on August 9, 2002 01:33 PM

 

Ah, the folly of unthreaded discussions!

I was actually continuing in the vein of the two comments preceding mine, specifically John's comment. Not directly related to the ROI article per se.

Usability - efficiency, effectiveness, satisfaction? Isn't that the textbook definition?

Posted by: MadMan on August 9, 2002 04:54 PM

 

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