On Dec 14, 2007, at 4:28 AM, pauric wrote: > 1) I guess it could be explained to the reviewers that while an > implemented site is an conceivable goal. Creating a living/breathing > social community for cancer patients is not something that should be > entered in to for the purposes of getting sign-off on a thesis. A > website 'shell' is a pointless milestone in this context. > > When they ask for 'implementation' it should be explained that > they're really asking for a live working community.
> 2) Sort of a small one, and not really a criticism of the student, > something to file in the lessons-learned category. I feel a > fundamental checkbox for -all- output from a designer is to > 'understand your audience'. Be that a spec, an email, a prototype > or an implementation. Maybe it wasnt possible for the student to > know who was going to be on the review board, but if it was, she > could have avoided this misunderstanding by preparing a solid answer > to the question. Thanks Pauric, very good points. That did come up in the discussion. What it finally boiled down to was a question as to the measures of success. I suggested that the student think about success based on the stakeholders in the project. What determines success for her as a masters student in design? What determines success for the users of the site—the community? What determines success for her potential client/sponsor? She needs to specifically state her goals, both in terms of what she hopes to achieve for her thesis, and what she eventually hopes to achieve with the project. Jack Jack L. Moffett Interaction Designer inmedius 412.459.0310 x219 http://www.inmedius.com The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring. - Paul Rand ________________________________________________________________ *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
