> > It is tempting to dismiss pronouncements like this as clueless. But, > the number of people who are ready to rush off and follow them is > probably much greater than the number of subscribers to this list. :)
Great point! I think about this often, for example, whenever I see a blog post or something that contains totally inaccurate or misleading information. I think about all those poor people reading it that will take it to heart and run with it, only to find out later the post was, well, bad. The post about "actionable lessons from eye-tracking" was blogged about by Seth Godin today. With an audience the size of his, a huge chunk of people are now walking into the future armed with the belief that eye-tracking is amazingly useful and that the so-called lessons on that list are tried-and-true and should be applied regardless of the situation. So how can we communicate the need to take any given set of "design > guidelines" with a grain of salt and apply them in context to the > wider community? Tie up all the design and development bloggers of the world and force feed them canned spinach until they promise to add disclaimers to their posts that say, "As always, the real answer is 'It depends.'"? Just a thought. -r- ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
