Comments on: Designing and developing to requirements and feature lists leads to unsatisfactory experiences http://intenseminimalism.com/2010/designing-and-developing-to-requirements-and-feature-lists-leads-to-unsatisfactory-experiences/ Simplicity Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:15:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Davide 'Folletto' Casali http://intenseminimalism.com/2010/designing-and-developing-to-requirements-and-feature-lists-leads-to-unsatisfactory-experiences/#comment-40 Davide 'Folletto' Casali Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:00:37 +0000 http://intenseminimalism.com/?p=197#comment-40 Yes, extremes are bad in both ways. But... Do you think that Flickr's statement is too much generic? I think that the best way to avoid generic goals is to think about experiences: what the user is doing, or wants to do. :) Yes, extremes are bad in both ways. But… Do you think that Flickr’s statement is too much generic?

I think that the best way to avoid generic goals is to think about experiences: what the user is doing, or wants to do. :)

]]> By: Gianfranco Chicco http://intenseminimalism.com/2010/designing-and-developing-to-requirements-and-feature-lists-leads-to-unsatisfactory-experiences/#comment-39 Gianfranco Chicco Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:09:27 +0000 http://intenseminimalism.com/?p=197#comment-39 I find both extremes rather annoying: sometimes the request is too feature-list centric, others the goal is just too generic, thus giving no starting point for the design process. An example of this second case from my everyday experience is when I get a request to design "the best possible conference". A conference for what? For whom? With what scope? My usual answer is that the best conference ever is that one that gives excellent free ice-cream to everyone ;-) (I wonder if it would work in the North Pole) I find both extremes rather annoying: sometimes the request is too feature-list centric, others the goal is just too generic, thus giving no starting point for the design process. An example of this second case from my everyday experience is when I get a request to design “the best possible conference”. A conference for what? For whom? With what scope?

My usual answer is that the best conference ever is that one that gives excellent free ice-cream to everyone ;-) (I wonder if it would work in the North Pole)

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