They know about Alan Cooper and Inmates. I've given persona training to prod managers at the company so they believe there is something there. This tells me that people without sensitivity towards design will doom design. Alan Cooper's hardline sentiment is right, there is a war in a sense between design and software development for skin in the game and enlisting design skills requires buy-in at the top-general level.
As you can tell the head hancho is a developer at heart. And I believe he believes what he told me - that Agile will unleash the "creativity of developers working directly with customers" instead of "centralizing design in one team". (of course, this is political cover for cost savings, but he believes this change is viable) I have no problem with solving minor design issues/usability with customer input, but I know things turn chaotic without a insightfully worked out plan. On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Tim Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > And perhaps buy them a copy of "the inmates are running the asylum" :) > > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:35 PM, William Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Find a new job at a company that understands the value of design. Run from >> this backwards place as fast as possible. >> >> will evans >> emotive architect & >> hedonic designer >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 617.281.1281 >> twitter: semanticwill >> aim: semanticwill >> gtalk: wkevans4 >> skype: semanticwill >> _________________________ >> Sent via iPhone >> >> >> >> ________________________________________________________________ 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
