"Get your development lead working side-by-side with the 'design' team as early as possible and you'll get a much smoother ride through the rest of the project."
Yes and suggest this is a large part of making the work between the design and dev team work. We worked on a project where the dev was outsourced and the dev team only looked at the designs later in the process -- and really played catch up to see if the designs could be implemented. So getting smaller teams of mixed disciplines to sit and work together can make a difference. "Encourage them to go and do small proofs-of- concept around those features that may or may not work in a particular technology option - incorporate the results back into the design documents." Yes! We used this approach to build the framework to support many of the UI implementations we were suggesting and it made the dev team feel more comfortable with the approaches. You can also think about what you think your users will be comfortable with based on the UI approaches and any new approaches you are introducing (especially with AJAX) rgds, Dan Daniel Szuc Principal Usability Consultant www.apogeehk.com T: +852 2581 2166 F: +852 2833 2961 "Usability in Asia" The Usability Kit - www.theusabilitykit.com On Nov 13, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Adrian Howard wrote: > > On 12 Nov 2007, at 23:00, Steve Baty wrote: > >> This about sums up my experience working with code-level developers: >> excellent advice. >> >> I absolutely can't emphasise enough the difference #1 makes to a >> development >> project. Get your development lead working side-by-side with the >> 'design' >> team as early as possible and you'll get a much smoother ride >> through the >> rest of the project. Encourage them to go and do small proofs-of- >> concept >> around those features that may or may not work in a particular >> technology >> option - incorporate the results back into the design documents. > > ++ > > Getting everybody working together early and iterating is the best > way of I've found of getting good products out of the door. > > Cheers, > > Adrian > ________________________________________________________________ > *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 ________________________________________________________________ *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
