Re: UKNM: Re: Amazon.com

[James Closs]

 >Completely with Stef on this one. what people may not realise (given that

 >all techies are a world unto themselves, right? and you don't actually

 >communicate with them, do you, you just let them build your lovely money

 >making idea that you had) is that the people with the most usability

 >expertise in their agencies or companies are in fact the techies, given

that usability engineering for software plays a big part in CS degrees.


Disagree.


Techies will tend to obsess about how the code works 'behind the 

scenes' and getting it functionally to fit the spec on time rather 

than do any more work for UI considerations.


Designers will tend to obsess about aesthetics rather than how the 

thing actually works and how much help the end user actually needs.


It is a very rare thing to find someone who can grasp of all the 

issues ( and when you do they are rarely from either a pure design or 

pure technical background ).


This is why most web sites are so shit.



         James Closs /     t 0171 460 4078    / When the horse

           Director /     f 0171 460 4081    / dies, get off.

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