>But being first to the marketplace, means you designed your product without the benefit of > examining, critiquing and learning from existing products and the > reactions of users to them
Not completely, Even in the most bleeding edge, there are very few designs that aren't built out of simpler existing interaction parts/patterns (I call flows, as it's like a workflow but also implies the flow state in the user when carried out effectively). iXD is particularly challenging as it's success isn't as quantifiable as other fields. Good design just 'feel's right, and in the flow state people aren't paying attention and therefore can't describe it. I work in a company know where people desire it's end goals, but don't know the first thing about what it is that I'm doing or is called, . Especially in cross media, going from one site, to another, to a download to an install, to a first run etc. They actually think creative/graphical design + marketing driven, instead of user flows. After spending about 10 years designing applications I've come to the conclusion that most pipelines are setup completely wrong. In creative agencies they have graphic design be the primary. In tech companies the tech's become the lead, in business lead it's about feature competitiveness. Which leads to either super rich designs that are beautiful to look at but typically keyholed with a completely unuseable scrollbar, or a super complicated product that makes perfect sense to the designer..but doesn't reflect any customer. Or features for the sake of competitive comparions rather than what features people may actually the market's need...while I know Photoshop+Word, honestly I find paint and notepad more useful on a normal basis. Just as it's silly to organize a banquet until one know how many people are coming, it's silly to design graphics prior to getting wireframes solid, and that can't happen without understanding the interactives (that which is hidden in time and doesn't far well on paper), and the dimensionality of the underlying data (requiring IA...another field that most companies don't know they need on projects). ________________________________________________________________ *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
