Mads Soegaard Mads is editor-in-chief at Interaction-Design.org and considers himself a bit of a Smashing Magazine wannabe. He has worked at The Danish National Technological Institute with research in industry. Until 2000 he was one of three partners in Csite.com, a web development company. He worked in the eBusiness Think Tank of Daimler and also as a lecturer at the Department of Information and Media Studies at the University of Aarhus. He was a PHD student at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Aarhus and at University of California at Irvine. He also spent six months at University of Tasmania’s School of Psychology. He lived a year in Manitoba, Canada where he learned to say “eh” like a true Canadian.
The story of usability is a perverse journey from simplicity to complexity. That's right, from simplicity to complexity—not the other way around.
If you expect a "user-friendly" introduction to usability and that the history of usability is full of well-defined concepts and lean methods, you're in for a surprise. Usability is a messy, ill-defined, and downright confusing concept. The... Read More
