The idea was good, but your scope was too narrow. Think up some questions and post them for our critique. Then submit a refined group of questions to a group of recognized and/or budding professionals. Limit the word count on each response. Slap up their words side-by-side for us to read.

The pros who are in this fighting for the users won't turn down an Q&A session simply because they'd have to share the spotlight. I'd be very interested in seeing the list of gurus who don't respond.

Better yet, make it a gala affair. Assemble a group of usability bloggers to each submit a question. Have all the bloggers reproduce all of the responses on each of their respective sites.

Posted by: Jack on August 26, 2002 10:35 PM

 

What a bunch of inactive hoddy doddy clodhoppers!

Fine. John, ask me the questions. I will channel the gurus and speak in their tongues.

Posted by: Jack on August 27, 2002 05:31 PM

 

I don't think it was a failure if you learnt something about your user base.

Also, as a total idiot that I can be, I added questions to it and also added at the end that some of these could be answered by the webword.com community...as Jack suggested.

Take the best questions out of all the serious ones that were asked and post one a day...see what happens...

Posted by: JB on August 27, 2002 07:23 PM

 

Better yet, John, why don't you answer the questions or get someone cool like Steve Krug?

Posted by: Lydia on August 27, 2002 08:01 PM

 

Wait, that came out weird. I didn't mean to say "someone cool" as in John is not cool. I was just commenting that Krug was cool and could be an alternative to John, whose coolness doesn't need to be expressed here.

Open mouth, insert foot!

Posted by: Lydia on August 27, 2002 08:02 PM

 

Does Krug wear leather and ride a hog?

Posted by: Jack on August 29, 2002 08:28 PM