{"id":86,"date":"2009-12-29T14:59:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T14:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.foodux.org\/?p=86"},"modified":"2017-09-03T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T16:09:10","slug":"anybody-can-do-it-anybody-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Anybody Can Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.foodux.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/28-jakob-nielsen-portrait.png\" alt=\"28-jakob-nielsen-portrait.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/jakob\/\">Jakob Nielsen<\/a> published one of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/\">Alertbox posts<\/a> with the title <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/anybody-usability.html\">Anybody Can Do Usability<\/a><\/i>. In this post, he made a comparison between cooking and usability.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jakob, usability is like cooking dinner:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"entry\">\n<li class=\"entry\">Everybody needs the outcome;<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry\">Anybody can perform the most basic activities;<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry\">Anyone can learn these basics pretty quickly;<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry\">There&#8217;s a level of excellence beyond the basics;<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry\">Skill levels form a continuum from beginner to expert.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The cooking analogy stretches even further:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"entry\">\n<li class=\"entry\">Although multi-star gourmet restaurants are wonderful, there&#8217;s also a place in the world for modest neighborhood restaurants.<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry\">Even if you can afford it, you shouldn&#8217;t eat out every day.<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry\">Variety is the spice of life.<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry\">Sometimes it&#8217;s nice to have others do the work.<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry\">There&#8217;s value to being an outsider who&#8217;s not restrained by corporate politics or &#8220;the way things are usually done.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So like cooking, anybody can do usability; the basic methods are simple enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Jakob Nielsen published one of his Alertbox posts with the title Anybody Can Do Usability. In this post, he made a comparison between cooking and usability. According to Jakob, usability is like cooking dinner: Everybody needs the outcome; Anybody can perform the most basic activities; Anyone can learn these basics pretty quickly; There&#8217;s a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foodux.org\/?p=86\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anybody Can Do It&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitchen_metaphor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}