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excellent. Some listening for me in the next week or so!

Usability is a tool that should be in the kit of all software designers/programmers. It only became a profession when people found they could charge £1,000 a day by calling themselves Usability Engineers and pontificate on the mysteries of ‘ease of use’.

Peter Morville responds to the ‘IA is Dead’, or dying, or irrelevant, or not as cool as Interaction Design discussion that’s been bubbling about lately

Donna Maurer’s keynote to the OZCHI conference in Sydney… I’ve had a quick look at the slides, and it looks interesting and somewhat contentious. Very pro-design and anti ‘usability’… possibly a little too much IMHO, but I’ll have to listen to the aud

Rapid Iterative Testing & Evalutation. The method leads to a high ratio of problems found to fixes made and then empirically verifies the efficacy of the fixes.

eBay’s take on design, usability, when to believe users, when users perceptions are more important than the truth, agile design and just generally keeping things simple :)