This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C129A2.590D9E30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Ah... Yes, recently I've learned a lot about that as well. >From reading "Innovators Dilemma", "Information Rules", etc. Good books that talk about how technology markets work. Also, reading original work on "Diffusion of Innovation" opened my eyes to non-technical issues with how to get technology actually used in the real world. Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Bone [mailto:jbone@jump.net] > Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:36 AM > To: Mike Dierken; fork@xent.com > Subject: Re: Usability and Software Fitness > > > > > Mike Dierken wrote: > > > You just now figured this out? > > I think the novelty was in explicitly stating that non-technical / > strategic business factors (ensuring survivability, ensuring > relevance, etc.) are just as much *literally* a part of "usability" > as the more traditional definition -wrt- ergonomics and aesthetics. > I've read a lot of stuff on software usability over the last dozen > years or so, and bar-none it's all been primarily about UI, usability > testing methodologies, and so on... some have offered some mystical > hand-waving rather than concrete advice about requirements gathering > / analysis / product marketing, therefore treading lightly into > relevance. Usability in software is a reflection of the efforts of > the whole company, not something purely in the engineering / product > marketing domain. > > Or, maybe I just have a thing for the obvious. > > ;-) > > jb > > ------_=_NextPart_001_01C129A2.590D9E30 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">RE: Usability and Software Fitness Ah...
Yes, recently I've learned a lot about that as = well.
From reading "Innovators Dilemma", = "Information Rules", etc. Good books that talk about how = technology markets work.
Also, reading original work on "Diffusion of = Innovation" opened my eyes to non-technical issues with how to get = technology actually used in the real world.
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
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> From: Jeff Bone [mailto:jbone@jump.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:36 AM
> To: Mike Dierken; fork@xent.com
> Subject: Re: Usability and Software = Fitness
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>
>
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> Mike Dierken wrote:
>
> > You just now figured this out?
>
> I think the novelty was in explicitly stating = that non-technical /
> strategic business factors (ensuring = survivability, ensuring
> relevance, etc.) are just as much *literally* a = part of "usability"
> as the more traditional definition -wrt- = ergonomics and aesthetics.
> I've read a lot of stuff on software usability = over the last dozen
> years or so, and bar-none it's all been = primarily about UI, usability
> testing methodologies, and so on... some = have offered some mystical
> hand-waving rather than concrete advice about = requirements gathering
> / analysis / product marketing, therefore = treading lightly into
> relevance. Usability in software is a = reflection of the efforts of
> the whole company, not something purely in the = engineering / product
> marketing domain.
>
> Or, maybe I just have a thing for the = obvious.
>
> ;-)
>
> jb
>
>