On 23 Jan 2008, at 17:41, Stew Dean wrote: > On 22/01/2008, Todd Zaki Warfel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> 6. Buyer isn't the user. How many people here in large-mid sized >> companies? Go ahead, raise your hands. Okay, how many of you get to >> pick the platform and applications you use? Oh, right. > > I think the term is 'Golf course purchases' :) I've seen many six > figure CMS and personalisation systems that do less than a three > figure or free CMS. > > Common myth clients tend to believe 'our site is very big and very > complicated'. Then you fit their complete site with all the pages onto > a couple bits of A3 (or even one sheet).
True - although sometimes this is also related to legacy decisions in the past that are difficult to change. Far too many people don't understand the concept of a sunk cost :-) Of course these sort of purchases are often wrong on all counts - not just the crappy user interface. Cheers, Adrian ________________________________________________________________ *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
