[IxDA Discuss] design by committee??

[John Grøtting]

I agree. I like think of testing as a way of ensuring that the  
designer is making "informed decisions", when he/she is working. The  
benefit to having multiple people around is to help interpret testing  
and getting a better understanding of what feedback was relevant.

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Am 19.07.2006 um 16:27 schrieb Wilson, Russell:

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> I think that data can be used successfully to backup
> functional design decisions.  You can test different interaction
> methods on users and measure efficiency, effectiveness, etc.
> (e.g. sequence of screens to support taskflow)
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> But it's more difficult to test whether or not "orange" is
> better than "blue" (my made up example).  This is the area that
> sparked my original email because it's a little more subjective,
> and in my opinion should be left up to the design team without
> requiring extensive justification and committee approval.
> (note that I say "extensive")
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>