On 21/11/2003, at 10:23 PM, Lorraine Justice wrote:
> The designers in the US are beginning to affect things like the US
> government guidelines and standards for universal/assistive technology
> design.
I'm pleased to hear it, but surely this process is not just starting?
What about the many excellent publishers' style guides that come out of
the US. Are these not evidence of design's excellent contribution to
social practices? If they are not, why do so many academics follow them
religiously? And that is just in my own narrow area.
> I am
> certain there are many more examples of design "results" in the US but
> they are not collected, disseminated or put in front of people who
> make key hiring decisions.
Perhaps that is something CUI design could usefully do? But then how do
people make decisions?
> The corporate sector is even worse at
> collecting design information and they certainly won't share their
> information.
How odd, we must live in a very different culture. We find government
much more secretive. Indeed, we have done projects in the government
sector and had to replicate them in the corporate sector before we
could publish the results.
Odd worlds we live in.
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