"Some important, recent scholarship on usability studies has called for a
revamping of the methods we use when testing more complex systems....
Still other scholarship has focused on the usability profession. Lund asserts that we are
entering a postmodern usability era that requires a reassessment of our
disciplinary purpose...[1]"

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Special Issue Focus: Technical Communication and Usability Studies
Sighci - Vol 33, Issue 4 (Aug 26, 2008).

[1] A. M. Lund, ?Post-modern usability.? Journal of Usability Studies,
vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1?6, 2006. You can read this article online (PDF file)