Pankaj, So, if you're going to struggle to get them to read one book, why select a book at all? Are there other approaches you've tried to get them to see the value of interaction design?
One thing you might try (before dropping some rupees on any of these books) is making one small change on your next project. Don't try to do all of UCD. Don't stop their current process, or add days of user research. Make one small change -- maybe throw in an annotated wireframe, or take half a day to do a user summary. If that change has a positive effect, they might let you make another change. And then another. Ultimately, if you do something to make their jobs easier, they'll want you back. And they're just not going to get that from a book. -- Dan On Feb 5, 2008 10:31 AM, Pankaj Chawla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/5/08, W Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The toughest thing about Pankaj's question is that he forces me to > choose > > just one per group - managers and line engineers. As many of you know - > my > > UX/IxD/IA library darn near competely fills my home office - and it's > kinda > > of sad in a geeky way. > > I would love to spend all my life in your library reading every single > book on the shelf. I wish people would pay me for just reading the > books and sharing that knowledge ;-). My problem is that the > Managers/Engineers arent even going to be happy reading the ONE book, > forget about a library full :-). But one thing I can promise is that I > will try and read every single book that gets recommended here in case > I havent read it already (chances are I wont have because getting the > books here in India itself is big problem and my only supply of books > is guys travelling to US and obliging by bringing in one at a time > :-)) > > Cheers > Pankaj > ________________________________________________________________ > *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 > -- | work: eightshapes.com | book: communicatingdesign.com | blog: greenonions.com | talk: +1 (301) 801-4850 ________________________________________________________________ *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
