Awesome ideas, David and Hugh! I'll run through and answer your questions, since I generally agree with everything you've said...
Q: In the end, if the client doesn't implement the design%u2014how successful is it? A: It's only successful if the innovation is pulled off the shelf some day and implemented. Q: Do you think innovation is easy? A: Designing innovation is not easy. Implementing it can be easy. But it has its own difficulties. Q: How do you gauge a clients ability or need to innovate? A: Not sure, would love to hear the kinds of questions others are asking to extract the "innovatability" of a company at a given time. (Yea, sorry, I know that's not a word!) Q: Have you ever delivered an innovative design that wasn't implemented? A: Yes, plenty of times. In the case of the first question, we acknowledged that we didn't have the resources to implement the idea, so we shelved the idea. Then a few months later, once we had more time/money, we pulled out the plans, refreshed out memories, and continued with the innovative design. Q: Have you ever tried to convince a client not to innovate? A: Typically, I have to convince MYSELF not to innovate. My blue sky ideas of a utopian web site frequently end with my realization that I'm only 1 person, and if I want to get anything done, I need to break off a smaller chunk. Q: Or are you frustrated by clients who won't let you innovate? A: Not any more. I used to be frustrated, but sometimes they're just not convince-able. Would be interested in hearing war stories/ammunition against the "won't let me innovate" case. Thanks for sharing, great food for thought! Cheers, Jason R. -- Jason Robb Experience Design & Implementation ja...@jasonrobb.com http://jasonrobb.com http://uxboston.com http://uiscraps.tumblr.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44405 ________________________________________________________________ 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
