On Feb 13, 2008 5:49 AM, W Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Manifestos are beautiful - and I can't argue with these - but it's the > practice and process of any methodology carried out by real people that is > all that matters.
Well, that's kind of the thing. There are real interaction designers out there inserting their culture into agile practices and making them design centric, not engineering centric. Just because it hasn't worked for some of us in the past doesn't mean that a blanket statement saying any approach/value system or methodology is always bad no matter what. There is no doubt that agile was created largely by engineers, for engineers. The customer touchpoints within agile are often based on weak research practices, which (and this is strictly my opinion) encourage and maybe cause some of the change agile wants to embrace. I disagree with others on this list who think agile sucks just because a bunch of designers didn't create it. It doesn't mean that as designers, we can't be innovative, creative and insert *our* values & culture into an existing one, to make things better for everyone involved. What's supremely ironic about this whole debate is that as interaction designers, we're concerned with, well, human interactions. Yet many of us can't seem to figure out how to interact with engineers to get the stuff we designed implemented correctly. Jeff ________________________________________________________________ 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
