[IxDA Discuss] How do you avoid canned designs?

2009-10-12 Thread Mashhoor Aldubayan
Hi, When you work on two sites that that share the same goals, top tasks and audience; would try to come up with THE optimal architecture and interactions for both and just play around with their aesthetics/branding to make them look different? or would you experiment with each of them until they

[IxDA Discuss] Usability Reports: A waste of time?

2009-08-23 Thread Mashhoor Aldubayan
Hi, I'm wondering: how many of you think that writing a big report on the findings/recommendations for a project is inefficient? >From my experience, it seems that I end up discussing (and often justifying) almost every single thing I write on the report, no matter how logical it is. Isn't a bet