Recently I wrote a post on another blog of mine, It's obvious, really?, about the nature of fulfilling a need by using considered design theory and practices, rather than trying to throw technology at it. This thinking came about because I was sick and tired of the same old crap coming from IT vendors and their clients that put the IT vendor's proprietary technology before the problem.
Many a shoe-horned disaster I have seen while working as an IT contractor. I've seen these third hand so have just shrugged and moved to the other side of the road, but in some cases I was bought in to try fix the problems caused, finding my work often hindered by the limitations of the vendors product.
Don't get me wrong, the work I've described above was in most cases at least workable in its end forms, but I know that with better design planning at the start they would have ended up cheaper to deliver, been more usable and also fit the business needs of the clients more closely.
My initial idea is to find a way of educating clients and IT vendors alike into taking steps to interrogate the actual business problem before even considering a technology to solve it.
This blog will track the ideas pondered and hopefully gain insights from the design community along the way. The results I hope, will be a usable and accessible roadmap to integrating design processes into the very start of every business solution discovery process.
And before you say it, I suppose I am tilting at windmills here, but unlike the battles of the man from La Mancha, I think my battles are definitely more solid and definable so, I hope, are solvable. ;-)
Time will tell.
Woof
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