Rands In Repose: A Design Primer for Engineers - 0 views
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While I’ve spent a good many years soaking in design, I’m not a trained designer and the following descriptions of your history and your craft will piss you off with their simplicity, imprecision, incompleteness, and engineering bias.
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I do believe working prototypes with sample interaction and animation is a far richer place to have a debate than a whiteboard.
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My experience with the HCI folk is that they are often brilliant researchers. If you want to understand every possible workflow your users are trying on your application, the elapsed time to complete these workflows, and the enumerated set of quantified emotional damage these workflows are inflicting on your users, find an HCI guy, give him 18 months, and you’ll be <pause> dazzled.
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very well written, funny as hell, if you've been there..
