The phrase "and usability rather than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two aspects, emphasizing the preference for usability over another factor.
Example: "We should focus on functionality and usability rather than just aesthetics."
Alternatives: "and usability instead of" or "and usability in place of".
Another potential limitation could be that, even though the didactic sessions and practice scenarios were focused on tool usability rather than the scenario performance, having these done just prior to final testing could have influenced the performance.
Voice is going to remove the barriers to usability: Rather than finding the interface elements, users will declare what they want.
In their preferences, customers were driven by their attitudes towards usability and convenience rather than their perceptions of security.
Campus software can open yet another door to attacks, as vendors that provide higher education software (Oracle, SAP, Ellucian, Populi, etc). often focus more on usability and functionality rather than on cybersecurity, which brings its sad results.
The findings also suggested that the user's attached to behavioural (functional) elements of the product will go after the new product with better usability, and performance rather than repair the existing product.
Interestingly, most questions are about usability issues rather than technical ones.
The producers dictate the competition, and thus far they have dictated a content competition ("The Tabs and Sidebars War"), rather than a usability one — or even a price one.
Anonymous felt that if they did pay attention to usability issues, students relied on intuition and experience rather than theory-based models, so the Anonymous (2012a) user-interface design took this issue into account.
Additional findings from usability testing included students' preference for 'learning by doing', multimedia, and interactivity, rather than large sections of text.
