This is all very interesting. I have always been a part of the waterfall development methodology, where there is (ANALYSIS, DESIGN, development, QA, then production). In the analysis & design phase, that was where interaction & visual designs were created & communicated. Overall consistency of the look & feel, and the determination of workflow & reusable screens & components where discussed.
However, now, there are development methodologies like Scrum & XP, where significant amounts of time has been lopped off in the sake of FAST development & deployment, and the analysis & design has been lopped off with it. The screen designs are done at the developer's desk in the simplest possible way to get the piece coded as fast as possible. And one recent experience that I've had was a company that used the Scrum method. They deployed a product that had very little consistancy. Lists that provided the same or very similar data were displayed differently throughout the app. Functionality that was supposed to be the same was conducted in various ways in different areas of the app, and more. But that wasn't their first concern. Their first concern was getting the "major" new & enhanced functionality out to their users. Basically, regardless of how hard or how many steps it takes, it is "able" to do this for you. In light of what this post's concern regarding including proper IxD, it seems it will be quite tough to convince business/product managers that more steps & time need to be added, when just recently, they have come up with ways to cut those very items down/out. How do IxDer's go about reversing that way of thinking? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=25686 ________________________________________________________________ *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
