[IxDA Discuss] design by committee??

[Wilson, Russell]

Thanks Sabine.
 

This is not to dismiss your concern about "designing by committee" also
referred to as "designing by consensus." I think that the key to avoid
this pitfall in a collaborative effort is for designers to generate a
vision early in the project, to 

[Russ]: Good point.  On one product we have had the ability to do this
(define the vision early) and I've
had quite a bit of success.  However, I'm encountering much more
difficult issues when redesigning existing
products where there are many problems, little to no conceptual
integrity, but developers are *defensive* of
their existing work.


So, rather than retreat, I suggest a proactive stance for design. I am
not sure what you are referring to as your "background in development."
Are you talking about product development as in a PDMA sense or are you
talking about 

[Russ]:  product development - specifically, programming/software
engineer many years ago