Hi Jarod, some unkind observers may have referred to this same phenomenon as "ego-driven design" - notwithstanding that there will be some people that can get away with it some or most of the time through either absolute domain knowledge or sheer blind luck (and there is a tendency for some people to confuse one with the other). I know some people that I would trust to get it right most of the time within a set task domain and a specific set of end users that they have worked with in the past - but they are the exception.
Other wiser heads than mine have said it many times in the past - the design is always tested, either before release or after. Cheaper to test earlier. For myself, I am happiest when I can involve users early and often in the research/design/evaluation process. Best regards, Andrew On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Jarod Tang <jarod.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > as guys keep asking "genius design", and seems some newbie designer > take it as the secret path to grand design success, which is not a > good thing from my understanding. > > from > http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/designing-for-interaction-an-interview-with-dan-saffer > "Genius design is when the designer relies on his or her own > experience and skill to design, without any input from users. It's > done by designers who either don't have the resources or the > inclination or temperament to do research. Too often, it is practiced > by inexperienced designers with little skill, but it can and has been > used by many designers to create impressive things. Reportedly, the > iPod was made with no user research, for example. > " > there's many problems from this discription, > 1. "Reportedly, the iPod was made with no user research, for example", > as we know iPod is not first portable musice player, with many > previous players, with bounch of user's feedback, so even by criitcle > design, he also get user's feedback indirectly(so he did get user's > input). Further, apple designer adjust the design generation by > generation, what's the driven force? user's feedback of cuz.(how can > one explain it in other way?) > 2. "relies on his or her own experience and skills to design, without > any input from users". With doubtfull iPod case, it's solid to say > one cant can create a produce without user's feedback, with one > expecptioin, himself is the user ( so you hardly find he visit outter > user) > 3, with one expecptioin, himself is the user ( so you hardly find he > visit outter user), this is not because of genius but because he's the > user > > Genius is died ( or never there), thy user is long life. > > There's genius designer instead of genius design, who can > 1. have good sense of good or bad design > 2. come up with spark design solutions according to insight on user > 3. empathy with user effectively. > > Regards, > Jarod > > -- > http://designforuse.blogspot.com/ > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- --- Andrew Boyd http://uxbookclub.org -- connect, read, discuss ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
