Have they applied a UCD or subset of this methodology on their web site. Put it to the vote, how many usability folks apply *some* usability activities to their own web site?

Posted by: daniel szuc on October 12, 2002 10:09 PM

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Why? The physical form of letters influences the experience, and since this is a conference for designing user *experience* there is an argument for doing so. Not all experiences have the rush of *efficiency* as their objective.

Tenuous, but possible.

Posted by: on October 13, 2002 04:16 AM

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Never mind the fact it is an image, have you actually read the words !
Maybe it's better being an image as the search engines won't pick up the actual words.

daniel, I 'do' usability on my own sites all the time. In fact I do it much more on my own sites that I do in my 'paid' work mainly because I am "Designing for an Audience of One".

Posted by: Mac on October 13, 2002 08:36 AM

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Thanks Mac. What activities do you find works best? We are currently developing software and included a *walkthrough* of a prototype and *usability testing* as part of improvements to the spec and final product. Very useful and powerful findings that have assisted greatly. Admittedly, it still will not be perfect, but its never will be ;)

Posted by: daniel szuc on October 13, 2002 11:43 PM

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The perfect way to get across the idea of blending design and usability would have been to have their catchy design, but to print text on the screen, possibly using CSS to get it to look the way they wanted, so that it was accessible and people with images shut off could still read it.

Posted by: Lydia on October 15, 2002 05:12 PM

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