Usability bleeds through to all professions - not only programming and web design.
From poorly written letter to badly designed products, we constantly create something that others interact with and use. In the past 5 years, we've made lightyears of progress in terms of clean design and usable products.
People are actually starting to consider the impact of what happens when they create.
Do you complain about the placement of the cupholders in your car? Usability and good design runs through everything: Do you revise a long winded email? Do you consider the size of the typeface in your Powerpoint presentation?
If not, you're loosing your ever impatient MTV audience who will demand easy-to-use products and communication. You need to become a usabilty professional.
"Good Experience: Usability Professionals Must Disappear. Instead of singing "me me meeee" about their job title (and, for that matter, their peculiar UX-centered research methods), usability professionals should disappear - like any good interface - and just serve the company and the various groups inside it." [via Tomalak's Realm]
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