On Jan 26, 2009, at 12:02 AM, Patrick wrote:
Get used to it. ;)
It's the real world. Your job is to sell them on it. Sounds tough,
but it's true.
On Jan 25, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Ali Amrohvi wrote:
As a User Centered Design graduate I find it quite irritating to be
working in an environment where engineers run everything
...
Few of them have taken some HCI courses and THATS IT!
There is NO qualitative research and both hardware-/software
engineers
think that their own opinion about the products matter.
Patrick, I respectfully disagree.
Ali, if you do what Patrick suggests, you'll not only fail, but you'll
have a miserable time doing so.
Your job isn't to *sell* your teammates on anything. It's about
teamwork. Find out what the objectives and long-term vision of the
team is. Work from there.
Jared
Jared M. Spool
User Interface Engineering
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