True Scott - which is why brainstorming and prototyping by IxD people should
be done first!

If everything was thrown in a data table - we would never have the 3-d
flip-book carousel to page through our CDs on our iPhones. Lotus 1-2-3 came
out 25 years ago - we might think about innovating once in a while :-)

On Feb 12, 2008 1:37 PM, Scott McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In a strict display sense, this is the single most common phrase I've
> heard from
> engineers/programmers about design:
> "Why not just throw it in a data table and be done with it?"
>
> Scott
>
> On Feb 12, 2008 11:40 AM, Christopher Fahey
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On the subject of Alan Cooper's keynote, did he provide any clarity
> > on his assertion a few months ago that it is the norm for engineers
> > to start coding without having done even one second of thinking about
> > design? Not just neglecting to do any interaction or UX design, but
> > not doing any code planning/design or any design of any sort whatsoever.
> >
> > I was really confused by that, and I think the thread on this list
> > about that topic kind of fizzled out.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Cf
> > --
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> don't believe in it at all.
> Noam Chomsky
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"No matter how beautiful,
no matter how cool your interface,
it would be better if there were less of it."
Alan Cooper
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"Where you innovate, how you innovate,
and what you innovate are design problems"
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