Wednesday, April 28, 2004


Movie of a snail eating a fish
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Interesting Interview with Usability Expert

I found this article really interesting.

You can make a list of the 10 best designed products you can think of. If you don't want to make a list, you can use Don Norman's (http://www.jnd.org/GoodDesign.html) - who, apparently, is now the self-appointed guardian of good design. Did their design teams follow the standard processes that we promote? Nope, apparently not.

Take the iPod. Design played a huge role in its success. In fact, design is so important that the rest of the marketplace defines itself in relationship to the iPod's design. Everybody wants to be as good, if not better, than an iPod.

Yet, was the iPod's design process a standard one? Nope. Have we dissected the process, so that everyone in the field knows exactly how they did it? Nope. Can we explain why Apple is in the process of shutting down all their usability labs? Nope. Have we even tried to answer these questions? Nope.

It also has a link to OK-Cancle  which has a funny parody of the design movement  and a rap song about Usability


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