This is the first week of my third course in the Master’s in User Experience Design at Kent State, and it’s been a very tough assignment. This blog post is part of it. There are many more students in this course than in the two previous courses, or so it seems. Just keeping up on the posts in the discussion thread takes hours. I’ve finally finished the reading and the first week’s writing assignment, and still need to contribute my own post to the discussion board.
This course is, as you can tell from the title for this post, an introduction to the subject of Usability. It’s interesting because it’s been about four years since I was introduced by a colleague at work to Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think. It’s weird how books can change your life. Reading DMMT opened a new world to me, one that I had never even heard of before. As in Frost’s poem, that has made all the difference. I changed my career as a result of DMMT (and other equally life-changing books like Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things) but, unlike Frost’s poem, I’m not telling this with a sigh.
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