Reections on Brian Shackels Usability - Context, Denition, Design and Evaluation
Judy Kay · 2013
The foundations of usability evaluation were being established in the early 1990’s. In this context, Usability - Context, Denition, Design and Evaluation built upon Shackel’s earlier inuential work that helped dene the notion of usability. In this paper he established key dimensions of usability and approaches to integration of testing these within the whole process of setting requirements. Essentially he argued for usability design as part of the system design processes. This commentary describes the context of the paper and then reviews the inuential ideas that appear in much subsequent