Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  The Joy of Usability - by Carolyn Snyder (03 Sep 2004) It’s a challenging time for the usability profession, no doubt. Many people are still unaware of (or worse, profoundly uninterested in) what we do for a living. The job market, at least in the US, has been tough for usability specialists the past couple years. More insidious but perhaps more deadly, we threaten to tear ourselves apart from within, fighting (albeit politely) over methodologies, certifications, or points of protocol such as whether it’s appropriate to have observers in the room during usability tests. So let’s pause for a moment to reconnect with the joy of usability. Article URL: http://www.ok-cancel.com/archives/article/2004/09/the-joy-of-usability-by-carolyn-snyder.html Read 182 more articles from OK/Cancel sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Transforming the User Interface     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy