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 [...]
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