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STANDARDS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE This past June, ANSI developed a survey to ask the standards community to identify those standards that make a difference, and why. This is a compilation of the responses received. ANSI/INCITS – 354Common Industry Format for Usability Test Reports The Common Industry Format provides usability professionals the ability to document information in a manner that enables accurate communication of usability data from one organization to another. Standardizing how such data is communicated is a major step forward in establishing usability criteria as part of the critical product/service evaluation process. ANSI/INCITS – 354Common Industry Format for Usability Test Reports Promotes consistency and provides strict comparison metrics between products and version. It also reduces variability. ANSI/INCITS – 354Common Industry Format for Usability Test Reports Usability has long been recognized as a key factor for products acceptability and competitiveness. This is the first standard that make usability visible in the software procurement process and also laid a good foundation for dealing with usability issues in other areas such as requirements, hardware,web, etc.. We have been using it extensively in many projects and it will play a very important role in promoting usability engineering application in Chinese industry. ANSI/INCITS – 354Common Industry Format for Usability Test Reports The Common Industry Format for usability testing is an important initiative in enhancing the usability of all computer software. Software has an overall history of unintuitive design and low levels of usability. Every year there is a tragic cost in human lives due to problems with software in the medical, industrial, and transport areas. Poorly designed, difficult to use software still costs the US economy millions of dollars annually, in lost productivity alone. This unfortunate, and potentially dangerous, tendency is at least partially caused by l