[IxDA Discuss] Common design mistakes?

[Manabu Ueno]

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Hi, all.

 From my own experience as a cranked novice designer, I'd like to add  
one;

- Try to unnecessarily reinvent the generic GUI controls such as  
checkbox, radio button, dropdown menu, listbox, text box, push  
button, slider, spin button, scrollbar, tab, window, and behaviors of  
those common elements. Novice designers often do that because they  
believe "design" means something strange.


-- 
Manabu Ueno
Chief Design Officer, Sociomedia, Inc. (http://www.sociomedia.co.jp/)



On 2006/08/15, at 0:05, Jenifer Tidwell wrote:

> IxDers,
>
> I am thinking of putting together a half-day course for CHI 2007.  As
> I prepare for it, I'm curious about something.  What, in your
> experience, are the most common design mistakes made by novice or
> untrained designers?  (Or those most likely to be taking an
> introductory CHI course?)