[thelist] Re: is web design dead?

[John Snippe]

On 7/27/00,  regarding " Re: [thelist] Re: is web design dead? ",  Kevin B.
O'Brien offered the following:

>At 09:09 AM 7/26/2000 -0400, John Snippe said something remarkably like
>(but somehow subtly different from):
>>Seems to me that useability testing assumes, at a minimun, that there is
>>some basic ability to use.
>
>Rather, you should make sure your testers are representative of your
>intended audience.

There is no 'rather' there.  If you are building a website, I assume the
intended audience is some slice of the websurfing public.  At a minimum,
then, they know how to websurf, right?