This is interesting, but seems to me to be a bit more complex than it needs to be.
Sounds to me that what you're saying in the blog post (http://is.gd/1uMjH) is "Well-researched user experiences over group-think-produced feature requirements."
Is there more to it?
Jared
On Jul 11, 2009, at 8:39 AM, John Schrag wrote:
I've written a post for my company's external design blog, that might be of interest to this list.
"...my co-workers and I spent several hours considering the question of UX design practice. We weren't considering the question of what makes good design; there are innumerable books on that topic. We were considering the question of what separates a healthy, effective design practice from the horror stories we hear about when talking to others in the industry...."
I've written a post for my company's external design blog, that might be of interest to this list. "...my co-workers and I spent several hours considering the...
There is more to it --- specifically, there's a particular horror story or two for each item on the list, which will be talked about in future blog posts by...
I think this is great! Ironically, we are just kicking off our own effort to document our design guidelines to frame how we work both as a team and with other...
... I think that's true of all the items on your list though: Validated Data over Expert Opinion Quality of Data over Ease of Data Collection Complete...
Jared introduced into this thread the simplification: "Well-researched user experiences over group-think-produced feature requirements." Later the list was...
... I took Jared's dichotomy list as "strive for A instead of B." While quality data may not always be difficult, the focus should be on obtaining quality data...
... This clearly shows you have a misconception of what user experience research is. Unfortunately, there's a lot of bad research going on in the UX field by...
... (although it is over-rated and even over-used, but I would never say that because anyone who does is clearly deranged or evil or both) < ... research is. <...
... It seems to me very unlikely that Larry Constantine is under a misconception about what user experience research is. I'm submitting a defect report on you...
... Herein lies one of the reasons that Agile has such a bad name in the UX community—the expressed attitude that user research (what I refer to as design)...
... Are you equating Larry Constantine with the Agile community? That really is quite funny. Todd, I get the feeling that you know nothing about Larry's...
... I'm equating Larry's expressed perspective with an expressed perspective from the agile community and one of the reasons so many UX practitioners snuff off...
Todd, I don't know where to begin. No one here in this forum, and certainly not me, has ever implied (as far as I can recall) that user research provides ...
Larry's original post about the magic of "both/and" vs. "either/or", as well as some of the comments that followed reminded me of one of my own perspectives on...
... Have "no reason to believe" while not exactly the same, is quite interchangeable with "can't imagine." Looks like hair splitting. You can blame the...
Hello, Todd. I am possibly the nastiest person you or this group has ever seen. However, I'm handing my pinball crown to you. You have consistently ...
so you're no longer the Bally table king? jer 'digging up the original Tommy soundtrack' kriegel "Be well, do good work & keep in touch." - Garrison Keillor...
... Actually, Ron, I did provide a reason: times change. SMEs are only one data point in the entire spectrum of research. While I don't undervalue them, they...
I just had to read this entire thread to understand the points. Actually, I had to read it twice. Larry's original point that led to this was: there are times...
Larry, I'm sorry that you didn't read the original article that started this discussion. It would have saved you some time. The list of "dichotomies" came...
... this discussion. It would have saved you some time. < I'm sorry, too, but then I don't always have the time, opportunity, or bandwidth to read everything...
Due to an amazing aptitude I have for taking on double the work I can get done at any one time, I've been completely ignoring this list. I just now went back...
John, I really appreciate you writing your original post: http://dux.typepad.com/dux/2009/07/values-in-software-design-practice-.html I've been having long...
... That's a really interesting observation. When my company first adopted Agile sometime around 2001, I found it alarming. It seemed to be all about making...
... <snip> ... It's the process in response to horror story that's a bit of a methododologists pitfall, at least as my friend Alistair Cockburn describes it to...
... Yes, and every thing you do has a cost--principally in terms of NOT doing something else. Something that might payoff better. When people say "this should...
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