In response to Can't be done you might offer a work session where
together you design how it can be done and also work out an estimate
of how much work/time it would take to build it.
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Hi Elle,
I think what may help you is focusing on getting your developers to
achieve empathy for your users.
One of the best ways to do this is to involve them with your
usability testing. Watching four or five people painfully struggle
through a user test is extremely motivational to anyone
My favorite aphorism that applies:
Cheap, fast, good. Pick two.
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Welcome to the Interaction
Hi,
I'm in a transition stage, moving from developer to business systems
analyst. In this new role, I'm trying to incorporate some usability
guidelines and improve user interaction. I get quite a bit of push
back from the developer team members.
They claim certain things cannot be done.
Hi Elle,
I like your approach, saying: if you (mr developer) can't do it, I will do
it myself. In my experience you only have to say/prove it once or twice and
professional developers will take the challenge the next time.
Nothing is impossible. Some design solutions are expensive, unsecure or
The real stunner in my experience is to say ...
The criteria that you are using in order to determine what to do are
different from the criteria I'm using. Your criteria are based on technical
insights together with your beliefs about what would work for the user.
There's a whole discipline
On 30 Apr 2009, at 12:49, Elle wrote:
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How do some of you, who have been in my situation, handle these types
of resistances, so that your application can be a good and usable
one?
[snip]
The best way I find to get out of these situations is to ask Why? -
possibly several times
Sounds like less of a technical issue, and more of a respect issue.
You could be a clown transitioning to ringmaster; you could experience
the same thing.
Read an I/O Psychology book for understanding motivations and finding
possible solutions.
On Apr 30, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Elle wrote:
There are no such things as technical limitations. That is a cop-out
phrase that people use to avoid change.
That said. There is such a thing as financial limitations. It is
technically possible to build something JUST LIKE a google search
appliance but that returns a REAL total number of
On May 1, 2009, at 3:32 PM, William Brall wrote:
There are no such things as technical limitations. That is a cop-out
phrase that people use to avoid change.
Huh.
Someone better tell the poor electron, which has spent all of its
existence trying to move faster than the speed of light and
On Apr 30, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Elle wrote:
How do some of you, who have been in my situation, handle these types
of resistances, so that your application can be a good and usable
one?
Elle,
What you're describing is an adversarial relationship with developers.
You say it can be done. They
moving from developer to business systems
Internal move or company to company? I only ask because if it was internal
you would know who you are dealing with.
They claim certain things cannot be done.If they cannot be done and they
have been employed and have say you can be absolutely certain they
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