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I wonder what train of thought leads the director of a historical institution like the Panthéon to fail to realise that he sounds monumentally stupid when he su

by swombat 15y ago

I wonder what train of thought leads the director of a historical institution like the Panthéon to fail to realise that he sounds monumentally stupid when he sues a group like UX for fixing the shit he should be maintaining, and then actually hires someone to break it again.

Maarten_pi 15y ago
Don't be surprised by how much is all about huge ego and showing them who's boss. Setting example and so forth. It's a shame, but at the same time it makes it easier to get noticed...
herge 15y ago
Tell it to the UX designer that got fired for answering to Dustin Curtis. http://www.dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html http://www.dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html
- nickolai 15y ago
  Not that kind of UX. In this article UX stands for 'Urban eXperiment', not user experience. Have a look at it it is an interesting read.
  - angdis 15y ago
    Yes, not the same UX, but somehow the same principles seem to resonate.
femto 15y ago
It does seem crazy. One can play devil's advocate though... In a museum situation there is always tension between preservation and restoration. The aim of a museum isn't to have a (boring) collection of items restored to brand spanking new condition. It is to record the story associated with each object, and that story can be lost by restoration. A particular bit of damage might be significant as a record of the events at the time, for example, marks on a building due to a record flood, a bullet hole due to a particular battle or a significant piece of graffiti. It gets complicated when one has to choose which story to tell, such as a painting with two layers. Which to display? Granted that the description paints the clock as being in a state of decay, not preservation, so the above argument probably doesn't apply in this case. There's an argument though that UX shouldn't be blinding going around fixing everything!

by swombat 15y ago

Maarten_pi 15y ago

Don't be surprised by how much is all about huge ego and showing them who's boss. Setting example and so forth. It's a shame, but at the same time it makes it easier to get noticed...

herge 15y ago

Tell it to the UX designer that got fired for answering to Dustin Curtis. http://www.dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html http://www.dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html

nickolai 15y ago
Not that kind of UX. In this article UX stands for 'Urban eXperiment', not user experience. Have a look at it it is an interesting read.
- angdis 15y ago
  Yes, not the same UX, but somehow the same principles seem to resonate.

femto 15y ago

It does seem crazy. One can play devil's advocate though... In a museum situation there is always tension between preservation and restoration. The aim of a museum isn't to have a (boring) collection of items restored to brand spanking new condition. It is to record the story associated with each object, and that story can be lost by restoration. A particular bit of damage might be significant as a record of the events at the time, for example, marks on a building due to a record flood, a bullet hole due to a particular battle or a significant piece of graffiti. It gets complicated when one has to choose which story to tell, such as a painting with two layers. Which to display? Granted that the description paints the clock as being in a state of decay, not preservation, so the above argument probably doesn't apply in this case. There's an argument though that UX shouldn't be blinding going around fixing everything!