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Posting Date: October 09, 2002
 

Wind-Tunnel Economics -- "There has been an explosion of interest in the last few years in the economics of human beings as they really are; not the "lightning calculator of pleasures and pains" characterized by Thorstein Veblen a century ago, but the habit-ridden, time-bound, emotionally-driven creatures that we know ourselves to be." (Comments: When are we going to have Wind-Tunnel Usability?)

 

  

Reader Comments...
 

Isn't usability wind-tunnel development? We take something that may or may not have been designed well and run it through the gale force of pseudo-real-life. All the bits that come flying off are reported as errors.

The alternative is to take the product out onto the real raceway of a production system and let those pieces fly off without any protection to the end users.

Posted by: Bernard on October 10, 2002 06:41 PM


 

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