> > Yes, but do you have good instincts on when to trust your instincts? > > Or is this a "Good Judgments come from Experience and Experience comes from > Bad Judgments" thing?
I don't mean to make it sound like the decision to research or not is allinstinct. You have to examine the situation, of course. If the activity is something you can perform yourself, is relatively common or predictable, etc, then you can usually research it without involving users. If it's something alien to you and is not typical or common, and is not something you can easily go perform and research yourself, you might need to talk to some people who know about it. It's not as fuzzy as I'm making it sound. If you're writing a college term paper on a subject that's covered in depth by library books, then you can spend some time at the library and come out with a great result (assuming you've applied some intelligence and aren't just recycling). If, on the other hand, your paper is about dog-fighting in WWII warplanes, it's less likely you'll find the good stuff in a library book, and you might want to go talk some pilots who were there. -r- ________________________________________________________________ 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
