29 Feb
2004
29 Feb
'04
2:48 a.m.
Nestor Diaz Valencia wrote:
Nobody will ever mention how nice designed are those photoshop icons or handy is to have a really really small properties palette flotating in the quarkXpress interface. You are used to something. The usability tests in proffesional apps is a myth. They might do it for consumer apps, but there is not usability test behind maya or the nightmare at 3dstudio, you just need a lot of tools and parameters and the try to fit all of them. Show me a Usability test and will shut up.
Indeed, Michael Wybrow found that in a certain respected app one of the features they sold as improving usability turned out to be a hinderance in his usability testing! Read his conference paper (where is it again?).
njh