> Can good design be done w/o formal research? Well, yes of course, but it's > rare. >
Are you sure? I mean, I agree that there are a huge number of lousy products/sites/etc out there, but there are also boatloads of great products, and according to Jared, only something like 5% of teams who use personas are doing them right, and I'd guess that only a small percentage of design teams use them at all. Assuming this is a correct statement, I doubt that the only good products out there are those designed by this measly 5% of the already small percentage of persona-using designers. So where are the rest of the good products coming from? Good design happens. Process can help, research can help - heck, even personas can help. But none are a requirement of good design. And since each is used effectively so rarely, it's obvious that a ton of good design is done without these tools. So, how confident are you, really, that good design is rare unless backed up by formal research? (Sorry if I'm sounding needlessly antagonistic, but this subject really gets under my skin, as you might already be aware.) -r- ________________________________________________________________ *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
