Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 10, 2004 04:01 AM
Sorry, but this is totally untrue. Could I recommend that you read Card, Moran and Newell's 'The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction' (1983) or Noyes and Baber's 'User Centred Design'. Admittedly both were written long before the term 'usability' was coined, but they demonstrate a lot of empirical research that is applicable to usability. The field of usability is a multi-disciplinary field composed primarily of psychologists (after all, it is humans that are being measured), but also computer science, discourse analysis, graphic design and others.
I think maybe you confuse usable design with graphic design. It's a fairly common misconception which even large companies make.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 10, 2004 04:01 AMI think maybe you confuse usable design with graphic design. It's a fairly common misconception which even large companies make.
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