Hi: Thanks Jared and good reading - http://www.uie.com/articles/five_design_decision_styles
"Project Context" plays a huge part as does company culture and acceptance towards our magic formulas. Side note - Would like to learn more about the Apple culture to understand how it really ticks. My guess is there is some UCD happening at Apple (but we prefer to believe its all coming from one or a few people only) Sometimes the approach one takes "thinking through the design and evaluating its merit" is just as important as the involvement of users (at the right time). So it comes back to a CHOICE/TIMING to involve users in order to inform your design assumptions. I am not sure what you call this but I can make up a cool name? :) Note -- We continue to do Usability Testing. We always use it as an opportunity to learn more about - * The project * The business * The users * The Product Development Process etc Is it always the best approach? No. But it does allow us to learn more. rgds, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37589 ________________________________________________________________ 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
