[Sigia-l] Business and decision drivers - was: IA and semiotics - and standards?

[Listera]

Andrew:

> Part of being a successful information support design/IA professional is
> selling a project in a way that it appears to serve the best interests of all
> concerned - which can be hard work sometimes :)

Or impossible to fulfill.

In this particular case, the naysayers had no appreciation of UI/IA/UX
fundamentals at all. You *could* say that it was not their job. However,
they also did feel competent enough to release it in an unfinished and
suboptimal fashion. Then they had to gall to claim that justifiable redesign
would "inconvenience" people already exposed to it, pretty much regardless
of the consequences for a much larger group for the entire lifecycle of the
product. Talk about Catch-22, cutting your nose, despite...

As David said, with these Neanderthals (until they die off) it may be a
losing battle.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba