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Posting Date: July 10, 2003
 

The Myths as a Defining Narrative -- (UsabilityNews.com) "Because usability can be easily monetized the larger development companies see it as guaranteeing success. However, usability as they know it is dying or thriving but is held in low esteem. They work doing usability or HCI research which means dying in anonymity."

 

  

Reader Comments...
 

Any thought about the more important narratives, those of the development manager, business executive, marketing manager, or the client of usability services?

Posted by: Ron Zeno on July 10, 2003 01:16 PM


 

Companies here are starting to take more notice of usability as they aim to get more value from their web sites or products and attempt to move away from a 'company/product/marketing' view of the world to a 'customer' view of the world.

Posted by: daniel szuc on July 10, 2003 08:53 PM


 

Easy to use doesn't mean ugly. I see many great design that only few modification would make much more easier to use with out sacrifying the concept.

Posted by: Richard Lehoux on July 11, 2003 09:17 AM


 

Business executive's narrative:
"Usability"? Isn't that something that the web designers for our corporate website talk about?

Posted by: Ron Zeno on July 11, 2003 11:47 AM


 

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