Design Guiding Principles
John Schrag has just written a post titled Values in Software Design Practice.
To summarize, John and his team came up with two lists:
Appropriate order of actions:
Setting Goals before Taking Action
Understand Problems before Generating Solutions
Designing before Writing Design Documents
Validating Designs before Investing in Code
Steak before Sizzle
Values:
Validated Data over Expert Opinion
Quality of Data over Ease of Data Collection
Complete Workflows over Long Feature Lists
Achieving Results over Writing Reports
Collaborative Design over Design by Referendum or Design by Fiat
Ease of Use over Ease of Coding
Well-designed Critical and Common Workflows over Complete Coverage of Every Possible Workflow
Ironically, I was just about to begin an almost identical process with my team next week. We are having our first “UI Roundtable” with development and “Design Guiding Principles” is one of the topics. I plan to take John’s team’s list into consideration when developing ours.
Design Guiding Principles http://bit.ly/ypK70
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Rather interesting. Has few times re-read for this purpose to remember. Thanks for interesting article. Waiting for trackback
[...] as my team and I began working on establishing a set of core guiding principles, I came across a post from John Schrag and his team at Autodesk describing their core design values. Based on their list and our own brainstorming, we have [...]
Several colleagues pointed out Bruce Tognazzini similar list: http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html
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[...] as my team and I began working on establishing a set of core guiding principles, I came across a post from John Schrag and his team at Autodesk describing their core design values. Based on their list and our own brainstorming, we have [...]
Two of my friends recommended I should read this blogpost, and once I did I didn’t regret it. Thank you, you are so right.