On Jan 27, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr wrote:
So, if I was a person who practiced RED, would I get to say so without
sounding egotistical? It's not Genius Design, so I wouldn't be
implying I'm
a genius, but I would still be saying I can design effective solutions
without following "the rules", which isn't all that dissimilar.
What if I could prove my designs were effective? Would that make it
less
egotistical?
:)
The problem with R.E.D. (or Genius Design, which I still prefer to
call it because I *like* the baggage the name comes with) is that you
can't tell if you've achieved it until you're done with the design.
Then you discover your experience paid off. Or you discovered that you
were completely arrogant and screwed over your team and client by
producing crap.
I like the name Genius Design because it means I'll never resort to
it. But I have met people in my travels who were capable of seeing and
solving problems without any research that took me years of research
to uncover. Those people are true geniuses in my mind.
Jared
Jared M. Spool
User Interface Engineering
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