On Nov 27, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Robert Hoekman, Jr. wrote: > I suppose you could argue that these conversations were "research", > but they really weren't. They didn't lead me to figuring out how the > site should work, they just led to the idea.
And it is. Just because you didn't intend to go there doing research for a possible product, doesn't mean that's not what ended up happening. Research is a discovery process. There are countless accidental products that happened (e.g. PostIt Notes, Equal), but those still happened in the process of trial, error, and discovery for something else. Was a PostIt Note the original intent? Nope, but someone created a not-very-sticky-glue that was "a failure" for their original intent, but became useful for something else. Accidents do happen, yes. And we can be "accidentally inspired" by casual conversation. But you still discovered something that gave you an idea for this new product/place/thing. Research/discovery isn't always intentional. Cheers! Todd Zaki Warfel President, Design Researcher Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully. ---------------------------------- Contact Info Voice: (215) 825-7423 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://toddwarfel.com ---------------------------------- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
