Speaking of usability rants, I so rarely see folks state a vision of what they really want user interfaces to be like in the future. I don’t think we should sit back and wait for Tog or Stephen Johnson to think about the future if all of us are responsible for building it. We have an understanding of common, current points of view (“make it usable”, “make it beautiful”, “increase brand equity”…). Wouldn’t it be great if we had similar common understandings of what we should all have 3 years from now? This could then guide all our efforts, instead of only bickering about what we did yesterday. Of course, we’ll never agree and will continue to have multiple points of view, but diversity is what makes us strong.
I need to go post this on some lists and see what happens…