I personally like summary reports (not huge reports but a nice manageable
size) for several reason:
- When I am designing, I go back to the findings/recommendations and makes
sure that I have addressed all of them
- In fact, sometimes some of the findings/recommendations are small
and not worth discussing in the meeting so it's nice to have them all
written down to make sure that the designer addresses them
- I refer back to reports I have written a while ago all the time to refresh
my memory on what happened on a specific project (prevents rediscovering the
wheel over and over again)
- When presenting the findings, I need a way to gather my thoughts for the
preso so I use the report for organization
The key is not having some giant unmanageable report in a crazy detailed
format but using a format that doesn't create a lot of busy work and is
instead helpful for analysis.
Julie
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Mashhoor Aldubayan
Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 10:44 PM
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Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Usability Reports: A waste of time?
Hi,
I'm wondering: how many of you think that writing a big report on
the findings/recommendations for a project is inefficient?
>From my experience, it seems that I end up discussing (and often
justifying) almost every single thing I write on the report, no
matter how logical it is.
Isn't a better way to just sit with the client's development team
and/or management, and get things done together?
I know Steve Krug is against reports, but I wanted to know what other
professionals' take on this matter.
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