Categories: DesignUX

Designers Are Defining Usability Too Narrowly

To our own detriment, designers prefer to think about “how” much more than “why.” This was demonstrated in my blog post from earlier this week but here’s another good example—or perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a bad example. You may or may not find it disturbing.

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Rob Cowie

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