I've been in exactly your situation. At this stage, what the team needs is not your expertise on how things could have been done, but your help making a success out of the tool they've currently chosen. If you can use what you know to help create a successful outcome, you will gain credibility points which will get you a lot farther in the long run.
Also, never underestimate how much people can be impressed with small wins, such as you can get by performing a few well-placed "interface surgeries" (to use R Hoeckman Jr's term) to the worst UI widget offenders. I recently worked on an intranet project with many challenges: lousy Lotus/Domino back-end technology and a really insecure marketing team who was anxiously spraying feelgood text all over anything that couldn't get out of the way. Within these constraints I went to work and applied best practices as much as I could. To me, the finished product looked like JoJo the Dog-Faced Boy. But the project sponsors were ecstatic. You can't account for taste, but you* can *decide whether or not you're going to be a difficult person to work with. Ask yourself: is your objective to make sure that everyone knows what you know, or is your goal to quietly use what you know to be the guiding hand in a storm? ________________________________________________________________ *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
