{"id":486,"date":"2007-04-06T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/486"},"modified":"2007-04-06T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T20:11:00","slug":"its-gotta-start-with-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/486","title":{"rendered":"It’s Gotta Start with Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s true, there’s definitely a time and a place for getting one’s hands dirty<\/a>. Sometimes there’s just no way around digging into the details and making things right. Sometimes, even as a designer, you’re going to have to play with the CSS to get the alignment right, because if not you, who will? Still, it’s important to remember that at the outset of a project, and even beyond that, limitless imagination<\/em> is a requirement…because limiting yourself to a technology will hamper one’s ability to truly solve a problem.<\/p>\n

It becomes so easy to get wrapped up in technology, but we need to remember that a client and user’s true need is to solve a problem, not have a piece of software. Before deciding to build software, we should consider the true problems, and discover what should be done to fix them. Sometimes it’s a policy that has grown stale. Other times it’s as easy as adding a whiteboard to your kitchen so that people don’t forget to communicate. And even other times it might be imperative to create a digital, internet connected, multi-touch capable whiteboard in the kitchen so that it can sync up with your local events database, rather than a new intranet.<\/p>\n

My point is that we shouldn’t underestimate the power of imagination. When exploring design solutions. Your first idea will (in all likelihood) not<\/strong><\/em> be your best. Look beyond the obvious.<\/p>\n

Oh, and be sure to staff a tactical, imaginative designer.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s true, there’s definitely a time and a place for getting one’s hands dirty. Sometimes there’s just no way around digging into the details and making things right. Sometimes, even as a designer, you’re going to have to play with the CSS to get the alignment right, because if not you, who will? Still, it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,2,21,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile-development","category-design","category-hci-topic","category-professional","category-technology","category-thoughtworks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}