Professionally run design agencies user test their designs to increase the value they deliver to their clients. The challenge is getting clients to understand the benefits of a solid development methodology.The basic issue at hand here is trying to get people to understand the value of usability. It's an uphill road. "I know our users" and "We'll fix that in the next revision" and "We don't have time for that". Jakob points out some very good analogies. If you hired developers to code a piece of custom software and they claimed that there was no reason to debug the code, you would think they were crazy. So if you apply that to interface design, the same holds true. You can't design the perfect interface on the first try. It takes lots of failures to succeed. The best writers ask editors to improve the correctness and readability of their writing before publishing it. Using an editor is not the sign of an unskilled writer; it's the sign of a writer who knows what it takes to write well. You need other people to look at your stuff. You will miss things. So have the people that are going to use it take a look at it. You can still get cheap usability. A couple of days spent will get you a fantastic ROI(Return on Investment).
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