This site is rarely updated. benbrophy.com is more up-to-date. - Ben
Jean Foster
One of the earliest members of the Stellar team left MIT today. While I was still working on the user interface for the initial release of Stellar, Jean told me we'd be doing usability testing, which I'd only vaguely heard of, and handed me a copy of Jakob Nielsen's book to read. Over the following months (and years) I observed a great number of occasionally excruciating user tests. The design crits I'd had at the Museum School were nothing compared to the horror of watching a stranger sit down and fail to understand how to do add a document with the user interface you'd built.
I've learned a ton from Jean. Those tests changed the course of my career, and even the way I see the world. Thanks, Jean!
Jean Foster is now going to help make websites useful at InContext Design.