Joe Nuxoll’s Podcast on Usability

Apr 27, 2008 in General Discussions

Joe’s talk at the Java Posse Roundup on UI Polish and Usability has been posted (actually it was posted last month, I’m just working backwards).

Lots of interesting discussion about formal usability testing and good design in general.

I completely agree with a distinction being made between usability testing, design (information architecture and use cases) and polish. It’s unfortunate that in the software industry (today), there’s often an in-balance between the three with polish usually getting the short end of the stick (and Polish != Web 2.0).

Usability testing doesn’t result in good design. You have to do good design and prove details of it in usability testing.

- Joe Nuxoll

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