Chapter 8: The Farmer and the Cowman should be friends
The focus in this chapter is on web development teams. People like what they like, and don’t like what they don’t like. In a team setting, conflicts may arise due to disagreements between Programmers, Developers and Designers. Programmers and developers tend to build sites that are more interesting and original with cool features because that’s what developers like. Designers design website that look great and are beautiful because they like good design and find it interesting. The thing these people have in common is: they are all web users.
Chapter 9: Usability testing on 10 cents a day
Usability testing is a great way to settle conflicts and disagreements between a web development team. The major difference between a focus group and usability testing- focus groups are the usability group is usually 5-8 people. The group is shown designs and ideas one at a time, they are then asked to figure out what it is they are looking at or what the item is used for. This is the quickest way for web development teams to narrow down their “good ideas”.
3 Links related to reading
importance of usability testing
http://www.simpleusability.com/beinspired/2011/03/importance-of-usability/
importance of usability testing (its that important)
http://imagexmedia.com/blog/2010/8/importance-usability-testing-9
the difference between designer and developer
http://webdesign.about.com/od/jobs/qt/difference-web-design-web-development.htm
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