The standard definition of usability is “The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use.”
That definition works on my computer! … </tumbleweed>
There’s a lot of opportunity in that definition for “but what does that [...]
I was IMing with Mr. Davis this morning and he asked me to bring some usability smack down to a Habari discussion on Google Groups. To whit (and wit) I responded:
me: Make it easy to use by everyone. Done and done.
mr. davis: Yeah, okay. If it was that easy, you wouldn’t have a [...]
[updated] Here’s someone else’s take on our panel. It’s not entirely accurate in the attributions, but it captures some of the sound bites that were important.
I had the pleasure (truly) of speaking with Molly Holzschlag, Patrick Haney, Aaron Gustafson, and Steph Troeth today in front of the W3C’s Technical Plenary/Advisory Committee here in [...]
I read an odd post on Peter Merholz’s site today. He complains about 37signals singling out Information Architects in their Getting Real book. It miffed him off enough to pronounce 37signals’ views and rhetoric to be shallow.
Jason has chimed in a couple of times in the comments on that thread. [...]
