[TriLUG] different versions of 7.2 for sale]

[Donald Ball]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, ilan volow wrote:

> For any graphical environment to get anywhere near a desktop, you have
> to have a group of people who are willing to accept proven usability
> engineering methods, accept core principles of cognitive psychology,
> and to think outside their little box (which is currently a server
> closet). Right now, most of the linux community is extremely hostile
> towards usability people who tell them things they don't want to hear
> but are necessary to do. For proof of this, see the talkbacks for the
> article I linked to:
>
> http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-10-16-003-20-OP-DT

first off, that's not proof that most of the linux community is extremely
hostile towards usability people; i don't know that linuxtoday talkback
forum participants are necessarily representative of the linux community.
pedanticism aside, do you have books or articles that you'd consider a
good summary of proven usability engineering methods?

- donald