{"id":298,"date":"2006-09-29T06:29:18","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T06:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/29\/the-usability-perspective\/"},"modified":"2006-09-29T06:29:18","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T06:29:18","slug":"the-usability-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2006\/09\/the-usability-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"The Usability Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not very often that you come across a field of work that transcends typical boundaries of the ‘classroom’, and goes on to become a way of life<\/em>.  The science and art of “Usability” is one such domain.<\/p>\n

For me, the journey began some 4-5 years ago, when I attended a talk by Dr. Eric Schaffer (Human Factors International<\/a>) on the subject of Usability.  Since then, I have tried to imbibe its learnings & research, and put it into practice, wherever possible.  I have also been fortunate, that the work (Application Development and System Design) I’ve been involved in, over the years, has offered me the opportunity to do so.  <\/p>\n

That said, until last week, it was still largely unstructured and based on gut-feel and reference readings.  As a result, each time I found myself in an argument on the “right way<\/em>” of doing something (from a user perspective, that is), it ended up being my opinion against the other man’s (whether he was a developer, a designer or a project manager)!  <\/p>\n

All that changed, last week, because I enrolled myself (and my project team) in an intensive program on The Science and Art of Effective Design<\/a> (read: Usability), offered by none other than the world-leaders in the domain – Human Factors International.  <\/p>\n

For me, individually, the program was a reinforcement of the beliefs and practices I have been following for the past few years.  In addition, the formal structure of the course also provided me with the terminologies, the well-proven methodologies of analyses and design, and other (non-subjective) tools and techniques which will help me continue on my journey…<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for the developers and designers I will encounter in the future, I now know the “science” behind it, a wee bit better.  Fortunately for my own team of project managers, we will now all be on the same page.<\/p>\n

If you are in any way associated with System Design, Application\/Web Development, Graphic\/Visual Design or  Communication Design of any sort, enroll yourself in this course:  It will give your Life a new perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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