Statistics, Usability, and Co-Creation
What do statistics have to do with usability and how is collaborative creation involved? Are they related? Is there a nimble path to be found?
These are important questions because underlying each is the notion that learning, growth, and right action is taking place1. Statistics give us a way to understand what we see and to set expectations in an empirical way, based on experience.
Science, numbers, experiments, these things yield data that allow for descriptive and inferential statistics. These statistics help us assess situations. They help give us a perspective that we might not have had otherwise.
Usability involves finding perspectives that inform design. Because usability is about EXPERIENCE and experience is about perspective. Everybody has a unique perspective because their experience is unique. And experience is subjective.
Which brings us to co-creation. The idea of co-creation is a mindset associated with looking at things from a different perspective. A perspective where everybody wins. Everybody has increased value for having been engaged. It’s about people being on the same page. It’s about being truthful.
Studying the numbers will help track trends as things change. Understanding numbers and making predictions require methods of statistical analysis.
Because something will change. It always does.
The Nimble Way observes the interconnectedness of things and reacts to engagement seeking optimal outcomes for all involved. Finding the middle way.
- Right action…as viewed from the Noble Eightfold Path perspective… [↩]
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