On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Adrian Howard <
adrianh@...> wrote:
> I'm wondering, again, if different people are hearing different
> definitions of "design" here.
>
> In my experience most UX folk read "design" to be the things that
> happen (mostly) before the story is written. Most dev folk read
> "design" to be the things that happen (mostly) after the story is
> written.
>
I'd meant to flag it at the time, but Adrian REALLY nailed it earlier
in an antecedent thread:
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Adrian Howard <
adrianh@...> wrote:
>
> Ah - the old classic of "design" meaning completely different things
> to different folk (I really must hone that ranty "ban the word
> 'design'" lightning talk I've had on the back burner :-)
>
Unless someone knows of a similar law with another name, I'd like to
propose Howard's Law: "The number of completely different meanings of
'design' = number of people in the conversation + 1"
