Found another thought-provoking post on the Autodesk UX blog, this time about the core values that actions that shape a positive, successful, effective design practice: <\/p>\n
http:\/\/dux.typepad.com\/dux\/2009\/07\/values-in-software-design-practice-.html <\/a><\/p>\n Basically there are two lists: one of right actions and one of relative values.<\/p>\n Right Actions:<\/strong><\/p>\n * Setting Goals before Taking Action Relative Values:<\/strong><\/p>\n * Validated Data over Expert Opinion I really like the wording and intent behind most of these lists. I have some quibbles with Data vs Expert Opinion<\/em> (sometimes the expert opinion can be right, defying user’s input, particularly for dramatic innovation) and sometimes Design by Fiat<\/em> does work (if the fiat comes from an informed, talented, visionary\/leader) or is needed due to severe dysfunctionality, chaotic processes, etc. Just depends on your culture and context…But overall good stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Found another thought-provoking post on the Autodesk UX blog, this time about the core values that actions that shape a positive, successful, effective design practice: http:\/\/dux.typepad.com\/dux\/2009\/07\/values-in-software-design-practice-.html Basically there are two lists: one of right actions and one of relative values. Right Actions: * Setting Goals before Taking Action * Understand Problems before Generating Solutions * … Continue reading “Principles & values in software design practice”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* Understand Problems before Generating Solutions
\n* Designing before Writing Design Documents
\n* Validating Designs before Investing in Code
\n* Steak before Sizzle<\/p>\n
\n* Quality of Data over Ease of Data Collection
\n* Complete Workflows over Long Feature Lists
\n* Achieving Results over Writing Reports
\n* Collaborative Design over Design by Referendum or Design by Fiat
\n* Ease of Use over Ease of Coding
\n* Well-designed Critical and Common Workflows over Complete Coverage of Every Possible Workflow<\/p>\n