On Oct 9, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Matthew Nish-Lapidus wrote:

> You're assuming that you can't divorce yourself from the technology
> while concepting .. It is possible to come up with the ideas and
> design before looking at the tech, even if it's one person doing both.

I think that designing outside of the 'do-ability' is a difficult  
thing for most. That's one reason why I encourage designers to sketch  
and not do concept designs on the computer. The subtle refinements  
sometimes take away from 'what could be'.

I have also seen great things come from the designer who did not know  
you couldn't do something. I was not there, but kind of wonder if  
that was not part of the genesis for ajax. We often have dev reviews  
where a developer says no to something... only to come back and show  
us how we might be able to get it done. I love when this happens!

Every design process is better off starting with a period of  
divergent thinking. Take the constraint off and work with only the  
goals. I have found that sometimes constraints are not as real as  
clients make them out to be. Once they see what is possible... they  
second guess and even remove constraints.

Mark
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