Living in a Post Usability World
What comes after usability? (Kathy Sierra) — “Thanks for giving me something useable, well-designed, and useful. Now, can you make it as engaging as a game or sport? Can you keep me so immersed that time and all the clutter of daily existence drops away? Where I’m under a spell that’s never broken by an intrusion from the software itself? Where the challenge is NOT in using the software, but in what I’m using the software TO DO?”
Usability will never go away. Don’t assume from the question that the end of usability is upon us. Instead, think about where and how it fits as the world changes.