On Feb 12, 2008 5:06 PM, Jeff White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 12, 2008 1:37 PM, Scott McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Why not just throw it in a data table and be done with it?" > > > > Scott > What's the issue with that? Kidding... > > How have you handled the situation? > > Jeff
Earlier on in my career, I just wept softly to myself because I didn't have the knowledge and words to back up what my instincts were telling me - and then just design as best as I could.* Now - thanks to self-education, experience, peoplegroups like this list, and books written by lovely, talented and passionate people give me more traction - both in highlighting principles of user- centered design and showing them how the very gadgets, applications and widgets that enrich their lives are all what they are due to the 'floaty disciplines'. As things have gone further (such as with the ideas and hopes that have been ignited by interaction08), and I'm more than just some weird amalgamation of graphics guy and programmer with a liberal arts degree, I can persuade people and hell, get them outright on board - both at lunch and during the process. When there is process. I still find in particular places that call themselves 'software shops', design beyond "give me a good color theme" is the first corner(stone) that gets cut. Scott *(Follow-up barbs would include "You just do HTML, right?" and "Just make it like Amazon.") -- If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky ________________________________________________________________ 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
