On Dec 26, 2007, at 11:21 PM, dave malouf wrote: > b/c few if any of these laws came out of research on young > people. They are all tests done on adults that have gone through the > same level of socialization. And if my reading is correct all of > these laws are based on research only done in specific western > industrialized settings. > > By no means are these cross-culural/sub-cultural studies and I do > question them. They are also not age-based studies and further they > are contextualized around a specific use-context of computational > areas.
So you feel that everything is contextual, that there are no universal principles of good design that are always true? (I wish I had my copy of the great Universal Principles of Design book at hand for this conversation. Would be great to pull some examples from there.) Dan ________________________________________________________________ *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
