[IxDA Discuss] What Women Want (was: iPhone usability tests)

[Tracy Boyington]

Does it matter? If your employer wants to sell a device to as many
people as possible, and a certain percentage of those people have
intentionally crippled their index finger, you don't quibble over the
cause of this usability issue. You decide whether it's a better business
decision to use your limited resources making the device usable for
them, or to use those resources elsewhere. 

But as someone else mentioned, there is the glove issue. Suddenly a
larger percentage of people are potentially crippled. Has anyone tried
using the iPhone with gloves yet?

And in case you're wondering, I do not have long nails. :-)  In my
office of 16 people, 13 of whom are women, I can only think of one whose
nails are probably long enough to make the iPhone unusable. 

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Tracy Boyington     tracy_boyington at okcareertech.org
Oklahoma Department of Career & Technology Education
Stillwater, OK          http://www.okcareertech.org/cimc


>>> "W Evans" <wkevans4 at gmail.com> 07/23/07 6:10 AM >>>
<poor analogy alert> If a group of users intentionally crippled their
index
fingers for aesthetic reasons, would their resultant inability to
mouse
click on an interface be a usability issue that needs solving by the
"interaction" designer or highlighted by the usability
professional?</poor
analogy alert>