RE: Usability Assessment: A Common Sense Activity

[John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

> Anyone who uses a product, whether during development or real-world
> use, is ibso-facto a usability expert.  The idea of specialized
> expertise in this area is ludicrous . . . software usability
> assessment . . .Ivory-tower theoretical frameworks . . .

first, I think you mean ipso-facto
second...a definition of expert is "a person with special or superior
skill or knowledge in a particular area". Using something does not
give you a special or superior knowledge of something. Taking a
scalpel and slitting someone from throat to groin through the heart
does not make you a cardiologist, yet you've used his product.

Software usability...do some research is the subject or work in this
environment and you'll see that there is something to this.


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John Posada
Senior Technical Writer


		
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