On 9 Oct 2007, at 18:00, Mark Schraad wrote: > > 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'. [snip]
I don't think it's difficult per se. It is however a skill and needs practice. > 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! [snip] Exactly. Developers are always making technology do things that it wasn't supposed to do. They/we love that! What they often lack is the user-centric outlook to use that for good rather than evil ;-) [snip] > 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. [snip] This is one of the reasons I like working in more agile development environments. That continual tweaking of scope/functionality is built in. Adrian ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
