In agency/consulting work "best practices" also comes up sometimes as a euphemism for "we have no research to support this, but our designers tell us they know it works from experience."
(good discussion of patterns too - I was going to jump in to note that a pattern may not be a best practice - it may be just a common practice) -x- On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Filipe Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for best practices, I see those as more granular than, say, "do > > ethnographical research." I'd say it would be particular ways, > techniques, > > methodologies that have been shown to generally produce good results. > But > > they are more focused on *how* you do things rather than the end result, > > which is I think more the focus of patterns. > -- Christian Crumlish http://xianlandia.com Yahoo! pattern detective http://design.yahoo.com Yahoo! Developer Network evangelist http://open.yahoo.com IA Institute director of technology http://iainstitute.org ________________________________________________________________ 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
