Comments on: Having a Design Philosophy http://kshitizanand.com/2008/11/hello-world/ User Experience Designer Tue, 04 May 2010 13:53:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: vinay http://kshitizanand.com/2008/11/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-381 vinay Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:00:09 +0000 http://kshitizanand.com/?p=1#comment-381 I loved this .... 'The way I see it, my design philosophy is based on strong design rationale, the ability to enhance user experience and a solid return of investment for the stakeholders.' Right on the money. I would like to add some more points to the design philosophy - understanding a problem before jumping to solve it - building a criteria or set of rules to evaluate design solutions for eg. I have 20 solutions to a problem , then I prioritize and give weights For e.g. solution 1 - good for user - but takes time to engineer - good for business value - must have as our competitor has it - as a designer be open to criticism and play the role of a facilitator, not the owner of a design - have no sacred rules that can't be broken... a design rule that is good in a particular context may fail in another... so have no rules but use frameworks and learn from others I loved this ….
‘The way I see it, my design philosophy is based on strong design rationale, the ability to enhance user experience and a solid return of investment for the stakeholders.’

Right on the money. I would like to add some more points to the design philosophy
- understanding a problem before jumping to solve it
- building a criteria or set of rules to evaluate design solutions for eg. I have 20 solutions to a problem , then I prioritize and give weights

For e.g.

solution 1
- good for user
- but takes time to engineer
- good for business value
- must have as our competitor has it

- as a designer be open to criticism and play the role of a facilitator, not the owner of a design
- have no sacred rules that can’t be broken… a design rule that is good in a particular context may fail in another…
so have no rules but use frameworks and learn from others

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