On Mar 24, 2009, at 4:57 AM, dave malouf wrote:
Jennifer, asking me to "re-design" Google Search is an insane request. Of course, the complexities are there and it is a tangled web that needs to be weaved. I have said in almost every post that this is about continuum and not about absolutes. But for fun, here I go ... 1) I'd get a group of stakeholders in the room, minus end users and I'd say. Go! start sketching. Think pie in the sky. I'd ask people to riff off of each other's ideas, but not judge any. There are no technical constraints and no business constraints. If you could design search just for YOU what would it look like. 2) I'd ask everyone to then evaluate using affinities what came out of that. What were the themes that people seemed to gel around? What is missing? What is too much? What re-defines search?
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I think your big question is where does data come in? And I would say that "data" for me in the context of use here is about validating design. And I would say that wouldn't be the first place I look to data. The 1st place I would look to data (AND I KNOW Google does this already, so it is not a criticism but an agreement) is in analytics for generating ideas. This would be done as part of the initial processes of ideation mentioned above.
Actually, my big question is: where does the problem you're trying to solve come in? Where do you introduce data about what needs to be different? About what the organization needs to achieve? About the gap between the current and the aspirational?
Should that influence the sketches and the subsequent discussions? Or am I missing the point of the conversation? Jared Jared M. Spool User Interface Engineering 510 Turnpike St., Suite 102, North Andover, MA 01845 e: [email protected] p: +1 978 327 5561 http://uie.com Blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks Twitter: jmspool UIE Web App Summit, 4/19-4/22: http://webappsummit.com ________________________________________________________________ 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
