Hi Charlie, I agree wholeheartedly with your statement, About ten years ago I came to the realization that if I were to be a > highly effective designer, I had to understand and manage the > organizational issues that could affect the design and its ultimate > implementation.
I wanted to ask you more about the books you've read on the topic of organizational politics, and ask if there are any you recommend. For myself, I recommend Gary Klein's *Sources of Power* and *The Power of Intuition*. Both books cover the relationship between interaction design & project management, and how these things can affect the way Navy fighter pilots, firefighters, and others make split decisions during emergencies. Another great book is Donald Norman's *The Design of Everyday Things* where mass-market thinking squares off against usable design; one of his most stark examples is an airline crash traced back to unusable controls. On a related note, for awhile I worked alongside my company's 6 Sigma team. Sadly their ideals were never really taken seriously by upper management and eventually the department went belly-up (I hear this happens a lot). However, even though I could see how some of their methodologies could be called into question, I thought that their devotion to measurable results was something that they and I, an interface designer, had in common. Regards, Gloria ________________________________________________________________ *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
