Something that I've noticed across usability and design discussion groups is that those of us who design and evaluate products often have a difficult time agreeing on what a "great user interface" really is. In fact, as a field, we are excellent at critiqueing products and providing bad examples, but less good at highlighting really good examples of design that nearly everyone would agree is a good design. A question that I often ask candidates for jobs in usability, interaction design, or related roles is "What designs have been inspirations to you in your work and why were they inspirational?" I've asked that question now 7 or 8 times and come up with some blank stares. I would be fine with many answers including people saying thinks like I was inspired by the work of Dreyfuss or Lowey or Frog design or Oxo products or the Bauhaus movement or Gestalt theory or ..... Actually, when I ask people to list their top 5 book related to the position, I often see them struggle.
Chauncey On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:40:29, Bruno Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having read the Jared Spool article Susie pointed out, I think that > it's now clearer to me. The development stages he outlines there > make perfect sense and explain a lot about the maturity of markets > and why on the initial stages of exploring a market niche products > are so ill conceived. > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24918 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > *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 > ________________________________________________________________ *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
