2007-03-19T15:26:00.000-07:00

I ran across an interesting post from Donald Norman, who always has intriguing ideas. The title of this article is "Why doing user testing first is wrong." Since this statement seems to go completely against what I've been saying, and since old Don is on the side of the angels, I figured he must have some counter-intuitive idea to pass on.

And sure enough, what he says is that we "plan first, test first, design first, program afterwards" folks are guilty of the same linear thinking of the standard waterfall methodology folks. We want to set up a "do this first, do this second, do this third" methodology, when what is really needed is an iterative design/test/code/test/design/test/code/test/whateverisneeded methodology.

In other words, we have to build into the system a way to answer a user's main question: "How do I know what I want until you show me something and I see whether or not I like it?"

2006-08-03T20:51:00.000-07:00

Here is the first post on the UoPhx Web410-420 blogsite. Here we discuss all things to do with creating web sites

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