“Design begins with assumptions about users and their work. These assumptions are either explicit or implicit; they are either well-founded or not well-founded. But they always exist, and they always guide development. Regardless of the type of assumption, they all share one characteristic: They can be wrong.
Ramey & Wixon, Field Methods Casebook for Software Design

posted by Ted Boren on Monday, Sep 25, 2006
tagged with design, assumptions, users