assumptions archives
“Specialization can easily become a strait-jacket for designers, directing their mental processes towards a predefined goal. It is thus too easy for the architect to assume that the solution to a client’s problem is a new building. Often it is not!”Bryan Lawson in How Designers Think
“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