Usability & the Users

We can spend as much time as we want to make our products look slick and their interactions snazzy, but the minimum a users really needs is the product to be usable.

Usability testing is boring, takes too much time and distracts us — but it reveals truths about our products that are invaluable.

Talk given at Geekcamp Singapore (Sep, 2010)

Transcript

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