{"id":428,"date":"2006-12-06T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/428"},"modified":"2020-03-05T00:44:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T05:44:51","slug":"all-employees-deserve-great-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/428","title":{"rendered":"All Employees Deserve GREAT Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not here to help build mediocre software.<\/strong> Quite the opposite, actually. No one should be subjected to sub-par tools, whether they’re using their software at home, school, work, or somewhere in-between.<\/p>\n

One of my UCD<\/a>-minded colleagues<\/a> pointed out to me last week that often business users are considered a “special” set of users because they’re expected (nay, demanded) to use specific software to do their jobs. If the time & expenses tracking software isn’t usable, there isn’t much an individual employee can do about it. In contrast, home or non-business users have many options when it comes to their software. If a person decides Mapquest<\/a> just isn’t good enough, the mapper can switch to Google Maps<\/a>. If TaxCut<\/a> sucks, TurboTax<\/a> is just around the corner.<\/p>\n

There is definitely something wrong with this picture. Giving home users options is a great thing, but why must enterprise users be subjected to second-rate tools, why not get high quality like https:\/\/truabilities.com<\/a>? Just because someone joins an organization does not mean their work should be monopolized by crap tools, right?<\/p>\n

So I ask, why shouldn’t all the User-Centered methods employed ubiquitously throughout the consumer market applied to business software as well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not here to help build mediocre software. Quite the opposite, actually. No one should be subjected to sub-par tools, whether they’re using their software at home, school, work, or somewhere in-between. One of my UCD-minded colleagues pointed out to me last week that often business users are considered a “special” set of users because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,2,21,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile-development","category-design","category-hci-topic","category-professional","category-technology","category-thoughtworks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t