I personally feel really uncomfortable making any kind of design decisions without a minimal effort at research, to me it just feels like guessing. When I am not given enough time, I do much of what has already been listed: -competitive analysis -get marketing data (better than nothing) -talk to customer service reps, talk to sales people (aka the people who actually interact with the customers daily) -check out analytics/logs -figure out who in my network fits the target audience and call them up
Jason, regarding recruiting at Starbucks, just hop a squat a table and put up a sign that says FREE coffee (in big letters) for 10 minutes of your time (or something similar). You might also want to let the employees at Starbucks know what you are doing, don't want to get thrown out for "soliciting" :) Good luck! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43514 ________________________________________________________________ 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
