Sounds to me like the Socratic method...question everything, but do so *respectfully*.
I'm down with it. We all need to be able to stand in the light and answer the hard questions, that's the reality check that refines design to excellence. Dante Murphy | Director of Information Architecture | D I G I T A S H E A L T H 229 South 18th Street, 2nd Floor | Rittenhouse Square | Philadelphia, PA 19103 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.digitashealth.com -----Original Message----- From: Alan Wexelblat I'd like to toss out a sentence for list members' comments: "[D]esign methodologies such as value-based design, reflective design, and critical design emphasize the value of explicitly questioning the underlying values, habits, and assumptions that drive both users and designers." (the sentence comes from an as-yet-unpublished paper, not written by me, so I can't give a formal source, sorry.) In thinking about this assertion I find myself wondering how one constructs and values usability within a practice that foregrounds explicit questioning and presumably induces some kind of discomfort due to that questioning. ________________________________________________________________ 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
