
Whitney Hess hat auf mashable.com einen fulminanten Artikel zur Abgrenzung von User Experience geschrieben. Dort hat sie die 10 häufigsten Fehlinterpretationen aufgeschrieben. Ihre Quellen sind das who-is-who der UX’ler: „A million thanks toPeter Merholz, Christian Crumlish, Dan Saffer, Liz Danzico, Dan Brown, Mario Bourque, Bill DeRouchey, Chris Fahey, David Malouf, Will Evans, Russ Unger,Steve Baty, Erin Malone, Livia Labate, Louis Rosenfeld, Jared Spool, Josh Porter and Kaleem Khan for their words“
hier die besten Stellen:
Für den Punkt „… not just about usability“
“People often think that [UX design] is a way to make products that suck into products that don’t suck by dedicating resources to the product’s design,” says Chris Fahey,
Für den Punkt „…not a choice“
For those of you who think you don’t really need a user experience designer, keep this in mind: “Nobody wants to believe that what they are offering is of poor-quality or deficient,” says Kaleem Khan, an independent UX consultant, “because nobody sets out to achieve a bad design as a goal. It’s always a risk. Bad designs and bad experiences happen.”
Lest den Artikel!
http://mashable.com/2009/01/09/user-experience-design/