What are the opinions here about what comes first, the Design or the Technology?
I am currently designing a web application from an existing windows application. No decision had been made at the time as far as the technology to be used, only that it would be a web application. So I designed like I normally do, I composite/mock up designs in Fireworks, and then build the high fidelity prototypes with xhtml/css/javascript. We have been showing our prototypes to users and have received a lot of great feedback and approval. Development has now decided to use Adobe Flex for the front end. Their reasoning was biased towards developers, easier to code, MVC, strictly typed, etc. My favorite was "The DOM breaks all the time, and we can't work with it." The developers tried to create my design in Flex. It was close in concepts, but not near close to what I initially produced. My initial thought was, maybe I should design in Flex, and make the Flex UI look like what I have designed. But I am thinking more that users and the design should drive the application and not development and what makes things easier for them. Development is still making decisions about the application with comments like, "it makes it easier for us to code" instead of "if we take a few more days, we can use JSON and improve performance by 25%." So what should come first? The design or the technology? Should one conform to the other? Should the design break for development? Has anyone else had this experience? Should the user come first? or the developer? Or am I just out of my mind? ;o) Thanks in advance! Grady Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gradykelly.com ________________________________________________________________ *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
