Things that have helped me along the way are: 1. Good mentors early in my career who pushed some of the boundaries (specifically, John Whiteside and my team at DEC in the sixties.
2. Self-reflection (objective self-awareness) 3. Attribution theory (critical for relationships) and it's various principles like the actor-observer difference and the fundamental attribution error (FAE --- REALLY IMPORTANT FOR COLLABORATION!) 4. Reading in depth and keeping up with research. Blogs are nice, but actually diigging into the research and serious books and articles refreshes one's perspective. 5. A solid grounding in statistics, research methods, and experimental design (to help understand the role of randomness, the importance of outliers, and the many biases that can creep into our analysis and interpretation. 6. Testing assumptions of generally accepted design and evaluation methods and processes. For example, there is a widescale belief that contextual inquiry leads to better designs, but the only study that actually tested that assumption was a weak study reported at CHI with relatively weak positive results. Chauncey On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Michael Micheletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Sebi Tauciuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you were to name one thing (or a few) that contributed most to your > > success, that brought a lot of value to your work, that greatly improved > > your design skills (you get the idea), what would it be? > > > > I'd say that practice, practice, practice has made the most difference to > me. In design and music both. A steady stream of design projects of all > stripes over years, with some succeeding, some flopping. Some as solo > efforts, some as a tiny cog in a great machine. > > Education, professional associations, reading, and many kind helpful people > have all been valuable, irreplaceable even, but nothing can supplant > practice. From practice grows competence, confidence, and what I hope may be > the early beginnings of wisdom. > > Michael Micheletti > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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
