This about sums up my experience working with code-level developers: excellent advice.
I absolutely can't emphasise enough the difference #1 makes to a development project. Get your development lead working side-by-side with the 'design' team as early as possible and you'll get a much smoother ride through the rest of the project. Encourage them to go and do small proofs-of-concept around those features that may or may not work in a particular technology option - incorporate the results back into the design documents. Regards, Steve On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:17:23, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Grady, the answer is "YES". > > Few things: > 1. Collaborate w/ Tech on design. Don't over the wall something to > them. You'll get dinged every time. > 2. Don't avoid the question of technology during the design process. > By doing #1 you want to make assumptions with engineering buy-in so > that if they pull a "we want to work in Flex, now" on you can point > to previous agreements in the design. > 3. If you get great feedback that affirms your design decisions, > document them, get buy-in that everyone agrees and use them > throughout. > 4. KNOW the technology. What in the world about Flex would make your > designs not work? Flex creates AJAX/HTML code. It is just a > development environment and server runtime engine. > 5. There is a 3rd party here, no? Where's the business? Who has the > business' ear? Are they part of the collaborative process? If not, > why not? If so, why are they agreeing with engineering? And why > haven't you made your case. ---------------------------------------------- Steve 'Doc' Baty B.Sc (Maths), M.EC, MBA Director, User Experience Strategy Red Square P: +612 8289 4930 M: +61 417 061 292 Member, UPA - www.upassoc.org Member, IxDA - www.ixda.org Member, Web Standards Group - www.webstandardsgroup.org Contributor, UXMatters - www.uxmatters.com ________________________________________________________________ *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
