Usability Quote of the Day

July 4, 2008

The high-tech industry has inadvertently put programmers and engineers in charge, so their hard-to-use engineering culture dominates. Despite appearances, business executives are simply not the ones in control of the high-tech industry. It is the engineers who are running the show. In our rush to accept the many benefits of the silicon chip, we have abdicated our responsibilities. We have let the inmates run the asylum. -- Alan Cooper, The Inmates are Running the Asylum, p. 15.   (via interaction-design.org)
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Sunday, January 30, 2005

Do you make this mistake in content management?

"The biggest mistake in content management is writing for the organization and not for the reader. It is one of the hardest mistakes to correct, but there are ways to ensure that you don't make it."

One of the best ways to get people to trust you is to directly address their needs. And one of the best ways to do that is to create a fictional character that represents that person. This is a classic technique of writing. John Steinbeck, for example, had an idealized reader that he wrote for, as did many other authors.

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