[Wsuug] speaking of usability

[Erin Walsh]

The previous volume of User Experience Magazine was dedicated to  
usability ROI.  Definitely some good info:
http://www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/user_experience/past_issues/ 
2007-2.html


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On Nov 8, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Zach Young wrote:

Saw this today.

"On November 1, 2006 we invested $50,000 of our company's money into  
a fund consisting of 10 companies we felt did a great a job at user  
experience. We wanted to test a hypothesis that companies who focus  
on UX will see it reflected in their stock price. The premise was to  
invest $5,000 in each company and hold the stock for 1 year. We  
called it the UX Fund."

"We struggle with the notion of ROI of UX. In our industry there is a  
lot of talk about getting the ROI of UX proven to the C-level  
executive. In my opinion, these attempts try to draw cause and effect  
relationships between activities and value. These micro-measurements  
are ineffective and are often non-existent. Instead, the ROI of UX  
comes at macro levels. Companies that internalize the values of doing  
great UX will see it permeate in their performance. This fund is an  
attempt to illustrate that."

http://www.uxmag.com/strategy/327/investing-in-ux

We talked some about this sort of idea on Monday (that is, how to put  
an ROI with usability.)

-zpy
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