[Sigia-l] Human-Centered Design 99% bad

[Andrew Boyd]

Listera wrote:

>The individual is a moving target.
>
That is why God gave us nails, and hammers to drive them home... 
metaphorically speaking, of course :) We nail the individual's boots to 
the floor *today* with fixed-in-time designs, and make them the best 
they can be for today's user, such that we may come back in six months 
time and revise the previously-known-working-but-now-not design, and pay 
for that month's mortgage payment. Such is the beauty of time. And 
nails. I am sure that Pratchett fans will recognise a theory in the 
making here - if it were not for time, then designers would only have to 
do the job properly once - and this in turn would be the end of 
middle-management's second favourite lament... "Didn't we pay you 
enormous amounts of money to do this design six months ago?".

Cheers, Andrew