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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: September 25, 2002 Dissecting Nielsen Series:1.Outsourcing Web services (CHI-WEB) -- "This is not an attempt to slander the undisputed king of Usability. I have as much respect for Jakob as everyone else. There is no other person who comes anywhere close to his contributions. However, I’m extremely concerned about the article and its implications. I believe Jakob should either withdraw the article or at least make necessary amendments. I do not represent Satyam, TCS or the software community." (Comments: Via Elegant Hack.)
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Has Filbert managed to hack into webword and disrupt the front page? Posted by: Mac on September 26, 2002 03:09 AM
Explanation of previous post: When I looked at the webword front page this morning it ended halfway through this item. I generated the URL for this page and added the comment above. This forced a regeneration of the front page that appears to have solved the problem. Posted by: Mac on September 26, 2002 03:11 AM
What I dont understand is, Jakob doesn't realise that though Offshore development is a big thing, very rarely does an offshore country gets to be a part of the product, right from the requirements and architecture stage. There could be exceptions, but majority of the projects are ONLY coding or maintenance/management contracts. By this logic I dont see how India needs or should train 400000 usability pros. Tell me something, how many software products you use are manufactured in India? Posted by: Suman kumar on September 26, 2002 05:18 AM
I can almost see the "MadMan, what do you have to say" invititation in that post. OK, I'll post something in a few hours. Posted by: MadMan on September 26, 2002 05:52 AM
See the comment at Elegant Hack. As much as I encourage others to critique, Manu Sharma's I didn't find any of his four points to be well-argued. Posted by: Ron Zeno on September 26, 2002 09:41 AM
I do agree with his over arching concept, but if the cost of programming a site is significantly less, in say China, and the quality is just as good why not have it done there. I always thought that by the time you got to the programming stage you had already undertaking all the necessary testing required, paper prototyping etc... it's simple code work. And because you then have a site...who says you can't keep testing it with users from the country it speaks to and then have your foreign talent make the coding changes. Applicaiton is not cheap and I peronsally beleive that you can split the two aspects of development clearly in two. Has he gazed into his crystal ball and seen his clients switching to overseas usability folks? Posted by: JB on September 26, 2002 11:43 AM
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