Nothin’ But a UCD Thang Pt. 1

Written by James Robertson, published February 7, 2004

Categorised under: Usability & user-centered design

The Ok/Cancel gang have published a very interesting perspective on the highly-visible disagreements between usability gurus such as Jakob Nielsen (NN/g) and Jared Spool (UIE). Be amused by the cartoon, and then read the commentary. To quote:

By the first definition, we could probably classify Jakob Nielsen, Don Norman, Jared Spool and numerous others as gurus in our industry. Interestingly, like the second definition of guru, the gurus of usability seem to agree about as often as leaders of opposite religious factions