Re: Usability Professionals and Technical Communicators

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Extending that definition to other areas would make all the 
people who think they can do documents because they 
like to write and have MS Word technical writing experts...

I don't think so.

If you want a "loose" definition of "usability expert,"
perhaps someone who has an established track record
of taking something that isn't terribly "usable" and
making it better.  However, a "loose" definition is really
not necessary, since there is plenty of real, established
information to draw on (www.hfes.org).

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
> Dori Green wrote: 
> 
> I admit that my definition might be loose.  In this case, I 
> define "usability expert" as anybody who gives any hoot about 
> usability and makes any effort to make documentation usable.

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