Usability
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puter, again, you make very little sense and your ignorance is showing. Everyone else, ignore this, it's boring.
Let me, for your sake, explain something to you. Truth is relative. There is no right. There is no wrong. It is all relative. The only way we, as a society, as a message board, can ever come to a conclusion on some truth is to weigh and take into account what the majority feels or wants or acts. It is the only possible way to get a handle on what is "good" and "bad".
This is what a usability lab attempts to do. It shows what people think, however subjectively, and allows an objective opinion to be formed out of this.
I think you are confused on what usability is. You keep referring to a black and white situation, some Neilson-esque site that has no design sense. It's far from that ideal. It is simply making wise decisions in getting users from Point A to Point B, to serve them best by communicating via design. It is not subjective, no matter how bad you want it to be subjective. It never will be. Because once you design for one person or small elite group, you've fucked up. You might as well not even put it on the web. Your faux-critique of Newstoday only underlines your misconceptions on the topic.