RE: UKNM: Flash - saviour of the Universe???

[Tomski]

> Good designers know how to make things which are good looking _and_

> easy to use. Anyone who puts desire for a portfolio piece in the queue

> ahead of this imperative should be fired at once.


the lack of attention to ease of use by many UK-based designers is not

necessarily (just) a portfolio-driven ego thing.


in my exp, young thrusting designers have been *trained* to expend most of

their creative energy developing an overarching design 'concept' for the UI

of whatever product they're designing - aka a

far-too-clever-for-its-own-good idea around which the real user needs of a

site are retro-fitted


the results? the utter bafflement of most punters.


also in my exp, the afflication ain't overly difficult to remedy - just make

aforementioned designer sit in on a session of user testing with a strip of

gaffer tape strategically postioned across his/her mouth.


worse case I've seen for a while?


www.chello.com


erm. 

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