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April 06, 2009

How relying on 'user education' is a failed strategy

Inflight Maybe you have heard the saying "we'll take care of that in user training". The notion that problems users have can be resolved by user training is severely flawed. Yet entire departments rally around this belief and worse many companies seem to wrap product management around it.

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Posted by Frank Spillers on April 06, 2009 at 12:54 PM in Usability Methodology | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

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