Fire-breathing requirements
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
The concept of “requirements” in interaction design is a mythical dragon that refuses to die. Designers seem to constantly bow to requirements and to imagine that they are cold, hard facts whose demands are non-negotiable. I’d rather follow my own understanding of the word: Things that are “required” are required, that is, without them, nothing works, everything fails, the streams get crossed, and the universe as we know it ceases to exist.
Fire-breathing requirements, by Alan Cooper for the UX Collective →
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