Usability
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puter, I laugh because you're either ignoring the facts, or you're not knowledgable of the facts...
"What makes a site usable...How do you know the audience finds this usable at all. Surveys? "
Have you heard of usability labs?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=…
They serve to answer that exact question by using real, live, human beings that aren't always designers and having them click through sites at their own leisure. This is the most important feedback, even in testing experimental navigation systems, because you'll see how regular users percieve your design. They also have the choice of just clicking that X if they get bored or frustrated.So now we move onto our discussion here, where we try to cobble together some opinion on usability based on OUR experiences. Case in point: The TSaccenti thread. By expressing our own likes and dislikes about the site, we come to a general agreement on what the site succeeds at and how it fails.