I might be in a particularly cranky mood today, but I don't get it: - Pickled ice cream is worth trying (and is worth making) if you ever want to innovate and come up with a new ice-cream flavor. Plain vanilla will still be the biggest hit because it goes with everything, but hey -- how DO you discover new things if you don't go weird and wild? SMS, soft phones and gazillions of other things were pickled ice cream once, remember?
- Is it really that new that designers and engineers get in the same room together once in a while? Do you really design blue skies and don't have design reviews with Devs? If you don't because it's not a corporate policy, have you tried inviting your Devs to reviews, for your own (if not corporate) sake? Come on, folks... the Apple article (I am not at SxSW, just read Business Week) is interesting, but say that it's eye-opening? Please. Forget it's Apple and substitute the company name for something less of a fashion icon -- would you even notice it? Lada On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:53:46 -0400, "W Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Similarly - colleague and I once had a client that loved pickle flavored > ice > cream - similar to your pony. > His reasoning was: I like pickles, I like ice cream. Pickle-flavored ice > cream is a great idea. We actually became close with the client and could > joke with him after a while when he was asking for contradictory features > or > requirements by offering him some pickle ice cream. He took it with good > spirit - but we spent alot of time building trust. > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Angel Anderson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > It's funny that others think of ponies too. We have made the mistake of > > actually responding to some feature demands, with the phrase, "I want a > > pony" delivered with deadpan sincerity. As you may imagine, the check > > writers didn't appreciate our sarcasm ;-) > > > > I shared this article with our engineering leads. I'd love to separate our > > regular weekly meetings into 2 sessions like that: one for dreaming and > > one > > for getting real. What a lovely way to work. In the case of Apple, the > > proof > > is certainly in the pudding. > > > > -Angel > > > > > > > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:55:46, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!!! > > > > > > I love it!!!! Anyone attend this at SxSW. > > > it's so interesting that an engineer is lauding this process. Gotta > > > love that. > > > > > > -- dave > > > > > > > > > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > > > Posted from the new ixda.org > > > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=26995 > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > > -- > ~ will > > "No matter how beautiful, > no matter how cool your interface, > it would be better if there were less of it." > Alan Cooper > - > "Where you innovate, how you innovate, > and what you innovate are design problems" > ------------------------------------------------------- > will evans > user experience architect > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------- > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 ________________________________________________________________ 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
