Re: The difference between designers and developers

Donna Maurer <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Oct 2003 08:51:08 +1000

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On 2 Oct 2003 at 17:28, Anthony Colfelt wrote:

> Hard evidence and facts to validate your decisions as you make them is a
> white elephant. A user test is the only real measure of your interface's
> ability to communicate with the user. This by nature means that your
> evidence is retrospective. Making improvements to an interface through
> iterative development and testing is the only practical way to ensure
> you're doing the right thing.
>
Are you seriously saying that the only way to design is by testing?
User research, understanding of goals and tasks has nothing to do
with it? What do you use to inform your initial design?




Donna Maurer
http://www.maadmob.net/donna/blog/

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