I have been following the RED thread with great interest and
pleasure, deciding not to step in this time -- but now I have to.
Regardless, on any given day, or any given project, a vastly
experienced
designer can be wrong a hundred times and an inexperienced designer
can be
right a hundred times. Experience matters far less than judgment.
This comment is totally obscure to me.
In my view, judgment in a design situation is strongly informed by
experience.
- Experience from previous design work within the genre in question,
by the designer him/herself as well as by others.
- To some extent, experience also in adjacent genres (even though
cross-genre transfer is not always straightforward).
- Experience from observing related use situations, with their
particular mixes of domain expertise, stakeholder tradeoffs and
external forces.
- Experience with tools, techniques and materials to be used.
And so on.
Of course it *can* happen that a vastly experienced designer is wrong
a hundred times and an inexperienced designer is right a hundred
times on any given day. But it is highly unlikely. Chances are that
the vastly experienced designer is right far more often than the
inexperienced designer. And this, I believe, is one of the key
underpinnings of the whole RED notion.
Also note that the difference in judgment ability cannot be bridged
by systematic design methods. Methods may be useful tools for
coordination and learning, but the outcome of a method is never
better than the person using the method.
Jonas Löwgren
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