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Technically and actuallyworking stuff“A <strong>design</strong> isn’t finished until somebody is usingit,” said Brenda Laurel, a great <strong>design</strong>er who usedto work <strong>for</strong> Atari, among others, in the 80s. Thisis a condensed truth. Great <strong>design</strong>s don’t just lookbeautiful: they let people succeed in their endeavours.A <strong>design</strong> actually works if people keep using it andtheir experience is great. This is the difference between‘technically working’ and ‘actually working’. Yourteam might claim that something works just becausefunctionally it’s more or less all right. If you knowhow to per<strong>for</strong>m a certain task, you can succeed – theysay. It’s according to the spec – they say. It’s just as wediscussed it – they keep saying.The problem is that the users don’t know, or care,whether the feature is as you discussed. They only carewhether they like using it.So does the feature work or not? In a companyGet it optimised107

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