Comments on: The Invisible Designer: How Can Personal Motivations Affect Design? http://bokardo.com/archives/invisible_designer/ Interface Design & UX by Joshua Porter Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:28:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Keith http://bokardo.com/archives/invisible_designer/#comment-199 Keith Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://bokardocom.siteprotect.net/wordpress/?p=14#comment-199 This is so true. When I look at goals for a design I look at three things. Business goals, user goals and what I like to call organizational goals. The last one is really, really fuzzy. But what I see it boiling down to is things like how easy is the end product to maintain. I also put things like a client's ego in there. Sometimes you have to take things like that into consideration. Well, a designer's ego falls in there as well. Designer's preference can have a huge effect on the end product and I can say from my experiences it can be really hard to reign yourself in and not let your own style, likes or dislikes take precedence over the wants and needs of the people who will use your design. A great designer can do this and in a way becomes, as you say, invisible. This is so true. When I look at goals for a design I look at three things. Business goals, user goals and what I like to call organizational goals.

The last one is really, really fuzzy. But what I see it boiling down to is things like how easy is the end product to maintain. I also put things like a client’s ego in there. Sometimes you have to take things like that into consideration.

Well, a designer’s ego falls in there as well. Designer’s preference can have a huge effect on the end product and I can say from my experiences it can be really hard to reign yourself in and not let your own style, likes or dislikes take precedence over the wants and needs of the people who will use your design.

A great designer can do this and in a way becomes, as you say, invisible.

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