The good news is: Even a terrible design standard will likely be better than 6 completely different designs which all get some things right and everything else wrong.
The core of your job does itself by being a job. So don't worry too much. Provided you aren't a moron and you know -something- about IxD, you almost certainly will have a positive effect. Look at MS Office. Once they unified their abortional interfaces into one suite with one horrific design, it became a lot more usable. Suffering through learning word was at least partially transferable to Power Point or Access. (dry heave) It is hard to learn bad interfaces, and hard to use them when you have learned them. But a unified design for your various apps will make that first part not a problem once you learn one app. And if you have at least addressed some of the rest of the bad design choices people make, you've won. You've won by trying! So pat yourself on the back and go take a nap. Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43155 ________________________________________________________________ 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
