The World Motivation
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
“Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.”
— Jef Raskin · Design
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.
A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including obscurity for its own sake. You give those guys a website for a banking institution and they screw it up, because they are designing for themselves.
I know what I am doing with my handbag design and clothing design.
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.