[Sigia-l] User Experience Deliverables

[Victor Lombardi]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Peter wrote:
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> Jeffery Callender and I collaborated on this article...
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> http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000228.php


Very interesting Peter, there's a lot of good ideas here to ponder. My
first and biggest reaction though, is that while it's common to call
these artifacts "deliverables" I prefer to call them documents. I
deliver software and systems, just as an architect delivers a building
or similar. I don't mean to play semantics, it actually has a lot of
ramifications for our field. If, in the future, better tools make
those documents mostly unnecessary, IAs who define their value by
their documents will face a difficult adaptation (or not). Imagine an
architect who says, "Here's your blueprints and renderings, my work is
done here."

Also, my spell checker wags its finger at me when I type
"deliverables" and I tend to agree with her.

Best,
Victor