Hi, everyone. Thanks again to the many of you (45!!) who responded to my query a few weeks ago, asking about the openness of your work environments.
I did, indeed, compile everything into something. I have no idea how accurate or useful it is, but I did my best. Rather than sending around documents to the whole list, I've published the info via Google Docs at the links below (the urltea link is shorter, but the other one is the 'official' published spreadsheet key). See results at: http://urltea.com/1s3h Or here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=plmkHeiOLcn_XSckbaAFXSg&gid=1 It includes an explanation of the "survey," a spreadsheet where I roughly ranked each response, and a sheet of quotes from some of the responses, from both the agency/design-or- tech-company side and the non-design-company, internal corporate employee side. Everything is completely anonymous. Here's my own quick take: There's more than just a correlation between innovation and open design environments -- there's definite causation. One reason why agencies and consultancies bring more innovative quality to user experience design is the infrastructure and openness of their environments -- the conditions under which they work. Talent, methods and experience of course play a huge role, but put those talents, methods and experience in a locked-down environment, and the value of their efforts devolves over time. It's almost 100% a non-scientific observation, though. And this was certainly not an empirical survey. But it's something :-) --- Andrew Hinton www.inkblurt.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT. The information contained in this e-mail message, including attachments, is the confidential information of, and/or is the property of, Vanguard. The information is intended for use solely by the individual or entity named in the message. If you are not an intended recipient or you received this in error, then any review, printing, copying, or distribution of any such information is prohibited, and please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail from your system. ________________________________________________________________ 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
