as guys keep asking "genius design", and seems some newbie designer take it as the secret path to grand design success, which is not a good thing from my understanding.
from http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/designing-for-interaction-an-interview-with-dan-saffer "Genius design is when the designer relies on his or her own experience and skill to design, without any input from users. It's done by designers who either don't have the resources or the inclination or temperament to do research. Too often, it is practiced by inexperienced designers with little skill, but it can and has been used by many designers to create impressive things. Reportedly, the iPod was made with no user research, for example. " there's many problems from this discription, 1. "Reportedly, the iPod was made with no user research, for example", as we know iPod is not first portable musice player, with many previous players, with bounch of user's feedback, so even by criitcle design, he also get user's feedback indirectly(so he did get user's input). Further, apple designer adjust the design generation by generation, what's the driven force? user's feedback of cuz.(how can one explain it in other way?) 2. "relies on his or her own experience and skills to design, without any input from users". With doubtfull iPod case, it's solid to say one cant can create a produce without user's feedback, with one expecptioin, himself is the user ( so you hardly find he visit outter user) 3, with one expecptioin, himself is the user ( so you hardly find he visit outter user), this is not because of genius but because he's the user Genius is died ( or never there), thy user is long life. There's genius designer instead of genius design, who can 1. have good sense of good or bad design 2. come up with spark design solutions according to insight on user 3. empathy with user effectively. Regards, Jarod -- http://designforuse.blogspot.com/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
