I don't know; I'd take the same hypothetical sequence of events and suggest maybe people take on-line opinions too seriously. I mean, if you decide against hiring someone based on a single bit of bad feedback not even particularly related to the business at hand...
And if you're joe lawyer, what the heck are you doing using your real name on eBay in the first place??
Here you contradict yourself. How can useability be great if the learning curve for a new user is high? Usability is about reducing that learning curve by making the interface intuitive (among other things).
Not necessarily. There's ease of initial use/ learning, and ease of continued/ power use. So yes, part of usability is that a new user, or someone who uses a package once in a blue moon, can figure it out reasonably easily. But then what of the person who uses the thing for 8 hours a day, every day? This is where a lot of GUIs fail in usability, because they are not designed to allow fast efficient use once the learning curve is climbed.
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I don't know; I'd take the same hypothetical sequence of events and suggest maybe people take on-line opinions too seriously. I mean, if you decide against hiring someone based on a single bit of bad feedback not even particularly related to the business at hand... And if you're joe lawyer, what the heck are you doing using your real name on eBay in the first place??