[Sigia-l] Rant about bad IA practice.

[Dwayne King]

Just to point out a couple of things:

Stewart's original post started out "...Now I may be wrong about  
these but I obvously think I'm not..."

Point number 2, no where in his original post does he use the word  
"sucks"

His tone and words lead me to believe he thinks eye tracking sucks,  
but he never says that.



My new definition of a sacred cow: Something you criticize and  
someone calls you a troll for daring to call it into question.

I find it particularly funny coming from the source. If I recall  
correctly I heard Christina Wodtke declare wireframes dead and  
claimed they were "an insult to designers" a couple years back. I  
didn't agree (completely), but loved that someone was challenging the  
worthiness of  my toolbox.


Perhaps I read it wrong, but I took Stewart's points to be sincere  
and his tone to be in jest.  My hope is that Christina's reply was in  
jest also.

DK



On Oct 30, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Alexander Johannesen wrote:

> On 10/31/06, Stewart Dean <stew8dean at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> without being overly defensive I've been part of this group for a  
>> while
>> and I was essentialy saying 'A sucks - if I'm wrong tell me why'.
>
> I've been part of this group for a long time too, but I still don't
> think it's fair to brush over topics with limited experience and
> declare them "sucky" - and then leave it up to us to tell *you* that
> you might be wrong. it's inpolite.
>
> Having said that, I've had my fair share of telling people that what
> they treasure sucks. And I think I've learned something from that;
> pointing out suckiness doesn't do any good. Pointing out *better*
> things works. So here's my challenge to you; for each item you claim
> suck, come up with an alternative that is better.
>
>> I'd rather be contraversial and correct in my approach than be  
>> safe and wrong
>> (not that I take this attituted with clients I should add).
>
> What if you're controversial and wrong?
>
>> If someting doesnt work I think it only fair to air it in groups  
>> like this, don't you?
>
> I think this community always have been sceptical of eye tracking, so
> you're preaching to the choir, barking up the wrong tree, and seeing
> the forest for nothing but trees. Or something.
>
> The point here really is that there is more than one way to say that
> something sucks, and yours weren't what I would rate as up there with
> Churchill. :)
>
>
> Alex
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