I agree with Jared's comment that we should not be demonizing developers and engaging in an us versus them battle. I spent a few years as a development manager and during my first week on the job when I reviewed my developers' performance goals, discovered that there was not a single goal about good design or usability - they were judged on good technical code, knowledge of new software technologies, how well they fixed bugs, and how well they kept to schedules. I changed the job descriptions and performance goals of my team and found that my developers became much more in tune with good design and the importance of sketching and rough prototypes and usability issues when the job performance had design and usability goals. If we demonize a group and use language that views that group as unchangeable, then we have little hope of ever collaborating well because personality traits are perceived by most people as less malleable than external factors like how people are measured (this is spelled out in much research in social psychology in the area of attribution theory). Chauncey
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Samantha LeVan <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with Jared and Josh. There's no use arguing back and forth. > Stop and take a deep breath and think about the other side. Rather > than presenting a new idea as being better, ask the engineers about > their ideas. What do they believe works best and why? Getting to > their rationale might inspire an entirely new idea that was a > collaborative effort, one that can be shared and embraced by the team > instead of an idea from one side to the other. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37605 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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
