Usability Quote of the Day

May 23, 2012

There's something very odd going on here. If designers made completely unrealistic assumptions about the physical world when designing technology, then we would blame them (and likely sue them) for technical incompetence. Yet when they make grossly unrealistic assumptions about human nature... we don't blame the designers, we blame the unfortunate people who are just trying to do what the design requires. -- Kim Vicente, The Human Factor, p. 45.    (via interaction-design.org)

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Not all rapid iteration is design

Rapid prototyping may miss design ideas ...

"One of the great parts of a good design process is around rapid prototyping. People seem to have taken this spirit to heart lately with the Web 2.0 movement. But is that really what is meant by design?

I don’t think so. To me, rapid prototyping is nice, but if all you are doing is having everyone working on one prototype you miss the important piece of design exploration, which is breadth of ideas.

Yes, it is important to implement, get feedback and make changes, but that is not design. That is engineering. It is incredibly linear and bottlenecks your creative team around a slngle energy flow."   continued ...   (Via Synaptic Burn)

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