Building Respect for Usability Expertise

[email protected] (Jakob Nielsen) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:30:00 -0700

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Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for July 6 is now online at:
  > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/respect.html
	
Summary:
Enemies of usability claim that because "the experts disagree," they can
safely ignore user advocates expertise and run with whatever design they
personally prefer.
	
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