In 9 words- Code written to help users accomplish their goal(s) better. -Abhay -- Cone Trees- User Research & Design http://www.conetrees.com http://www.twitter.com/conetrees http://www.theuxbookmark.com http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php?id=new_delhi http://www.slideshare.net/group/web-accessibility
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Russell Wilson <russ.wil...@gmail.com>wrote: > > "...making the ordinary extraordinary" seems very generic to me, whereas > > "software design" seems fairly specific. (I hang out, because of my > son's > > profession, with a lot of magicians and special effects artists these > days. > > Those guys think they've cornered the market on 'making the ordinary > > extraordinary'. And I find it hard to believe that Ferrari's designers > don't > > think they are 'making the ordinary extraordinary.' Likewise, there ain't > > nothing ordinary about this $2.1m Bugatti: http://is.gd/1nB3s ) > > > > Well I never said it was the best answer - it literally popped out of my > mouth on the spot when asked the question. > BUT, it does capture something - that at the end of the day, we're not > design luxury items; we're not really creating works of art (maybe, but > rarely). We're building tools for people to do stuff. And of course we're > trying to make those tools the best they can be. We want people to be > attached to them (like I'm attached to me new Silva Alpha > headlamp< > http://www.silva.se/en/Products/Mobile-Lighting/Alpha-Intelligent-Light/ > >... > trust me it rocks!) > We are making the ordinary (e.g. accounting software... talk about blah... > *smile*) extra-ordinary, or as good as it can be. > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
