[IxDA Discuss] Alan Cooper on Software Design: Code=Design?

[dave malouf]

I think you both are missing the bigger point. UX is practices by less
than a 1/4 of total software produced today. If you are already using
UX strategies and processes, Alan ain't speaking to you. You are an
interaction designer of some sort b/c you separate the role of design
from engineering from building. Great!

Alan is calling to task all those programmers who think they design
systems without actually doing real design. It's pretty simple
really. 

I think you are getting hung up on the semantics and thus aren't
seeing the forest from the trees. Isn't UML just another
codification? Schematics? Psuedo code? Alan's point is that
"unpredictability" can only be challenged through the rigors of
research methods which he espouses under the title of interaction
design. 

(I actually think that his definition of IxD is a tad too broad, but
he and I can get into that in Savannah.)


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