I got a link to his website http://www.useit.com and browsed a bit through it. In this usability wonderland, you can discover different posts - (tada) mostly about usability. Throughout his texts, he strongly advocates the "anything is better than nothing" approach when it comes to usability(http://www.useit.com/papers/guerrilla_hci.html).
Two of the main problems "with usability" is that a lot of people think of it as being too expensive to address explicitely during software development and it being just a nice add-on to user interface. In his articles, he addresses these two issues. Some of the works on the page include:
- How to tell your boss (and some ideas for yourself) that usability is worth thinking about: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html, and
- Discount Usability Engineering as the candidate to quietly slip into companies and deliver a great cost-benefit ratio: http://www.useit.com/papers/guerrilla_hci.html.
I can recommend reading these and - if interested - to browse his site for more articles. He also has some articles on website usability (as websites take the biggest damage if not created usable): http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/.
For entertainment, check out the Top 10 Bloopers when it comes to usability in the movies: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/film-ui-bloopers.html.
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