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  Usability News - Feature: The Persistence of Usability Myths 

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  Feature: The Persistence of Usability Myths Source: UN, 8 May 2003 Submitted by Ann Light Last year we researched the top 10 usability myths. A number of people, including technology pundits, had attacked ... usability. We thought the attacks were based on misconceptions. For example, one misconception was that usability is purely a matter of ensuring fast download times. We conducted an online survey to see whether web professionals agreed with the pundits. In our survey, most respondents worked in web design (97%). They included managers, webmasters, designers, programmers as well as sales and marketing professionals. (Interestingly, few respondents had the same job titles.) The largest group (57%) were involved in interface design, and of those 36% had no formal design training. Only 8% were involved solely in usability. Overall, few respondents agreed with the myths, and so the question remained: why had the pundits got such a skewed view of usability and what does the profession need   [More...] [Less...]

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