> Most designers I work with don't have the vocabulary or knowledge about what makes something "usable" in the wider sense, let alone the ability to actually so

> Most designers I work with don't have the vocabulary or knowledge about what makes something "usable" in the wider sense, let alone the ability to actually solve subtle interaction design or information display problems. That's wild. We _had_ to read Design of Everyday Things as part of an HCI course in my Software Engineering curriculum. You couldn't get your degree without having some working knowledge of affordances and signifiers. I was under the impression, at the time, that we were dipping our toes into a world which UI/UX designers were intimately familiar with. Perhaps not.