SIGIA-L Mail Archives: Re: SIGIA-L: Usability in Software Devel
Re: SIGIA-L: Usability in Software Development Process
From: Darryn Sneller (darryns_at_hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 26 2001 - 15:57:17 EDT
George,
While all of the books you mention are relevant, I am trying to see if I
can't find some more current information. Having worked at an 'enterprise'
software startup(which has since crashed and burned), I know that we didn't
do any usability testing, although we did do functional tests. As developers
we were basically told to create the UI ourselves, so we did. We could use
it just fine. Surely this can't be the practice at bigger companies?
Thanks,
Darryn
>>My question is what do you mean by "usability testing"? As Mary Deaton
>pointed out, the term is being stretched by some to encompass all sort of
>user-focused design techniques (similiar to how the term IA is often
>broadly used to talk about what I can "user experience architecture.")
>
>"Usability testing" in its traditional sense is a narrow set of techniques.
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