Hi Alex, I have to admit that I have almost no understanding of NLP, other than having read about it briefly on Productivity and Success blogs in the past few months. Here is a quote found on the web (pasted here mostly for my benefit): "Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is an incredibly powerful discipline that enables people to unblock the structures of human communication and human excellence. By doing so people can think, communicate and manage themselves, and others, more effectively. NLP explores the relationships between how we think (neuro), how we communicate (linguistic) and our patterns of behaviour and emotion (programmes)." - from the website http://www.inspiritive.com.au/nlp.htm
I admit that I don't understand it completely enough to rule it out of my list of interesting topics to investigate. And it might just add to my toolset as a designer. This does, however, raise a red flag. As an Interaction Designer, my first and foremost concern is understanding the user through various user research methods. I try to understand as best I can how our users are most likely to use our products, with the time and resources that I have at my disposal. This includes (but is not limited to) experience in and knowledge of the field as well as employing Usability Testing methods. I am not trying to alter or change people's behavior towards these designs. That's really up to the individual. Rather, in understanding my users and how they complete the tasks being presented to them, I can try to optimize the design to the research. I have been surprised countless times how differently users can react to what I initially thought was a very carefully designed interface. IMHO it is much more efficient to focus on what I have control over (the design) than what I do not have control over (the behavior of the large number of users that I design for). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=24120 ________________________________________________________________ *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
