Watching a YouTube presidential campaign clip the other day, the candidate kept saying "The American People this" and "The American People that".
The way it sort of trilled off the tongue reminded me much of developers saying "The Users this" and "The Users that". We've all heard of or employed various ways to work the design past "The Users" when creating software: user research, personas, inviting a couple representative users onto the design team, etc. We know from past experience that what the developers think "The Users" want may be instead what the developers want, or know how to do perhaps. Does "The American People" / Politicians sound like "The Users" / Developers to you? Are there other similar Generalization / Occupation pairs you can think of? Examples from other cultures and languages? Clarification from anyone more politically savvy than I am (that's just about everybody)? If this doesn't make any sense, my apologies, it may be the antibiotics & cough medicine talking... 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
