alsomike

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by alsomike 16y ago
There's a joke on the old saying: if it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, don't be deceived, it is a duck. Smart people have a tendency to overcomplicate things and be so suspicious of "superficial" indicators. The assumption is tha
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by alsomike 16y ago
I'm a designer by day, but I'd be up to do some freelance work -- altojunk @ gmail.
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by alsomike 16y ago
This is naive. Creation is just the new form of consumerism! Think about how much money changes hands today based on work of millions of creators all trying to be the latest YouTube star. To cope with the meaningless and alienation of moder
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by alsomike 16y ago
A focus group facilitator doesn't try to influence the audience. And focus groups usually don't even empathize with the customer, they simply write down what the customer wants, if they prefer blue or red, not why they prefer it and what th
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by alsomike 16y ago
Infants are at a completely different stage of language acquisition than 3-6 year olds, so there's no reason to think that there's a single best "essentially the same" way of speaking regardless of age.
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by alsomike 16y ago
This seems kind of obvious, but OK. How do you know what a customer needs? How do you know whether your idea meets that need? You have to look at the world from their perspective begin to answer those questions.
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by alsomike 16y ago
That's only because you're created a straw-man definition of design. Don't buy the hype: design is about influencing the subjective state of the audience. Sure, beauty is one kind of experience, and maybe it gets a lot of attention, but it'
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by alsomike 16y ago
And sometimes bad usability is what sells too. That's why you have TVs that come with remotes with a million buttons on them, it makes the buyer feel like he's got something powerful, and by extension, makes him feel powerful. If your targe