Good advice for software dev.

I caught this from Read/WriteWeb and it's a really good follow up to one of my earlier posts.

Another great post is The Agile Web Design Manifesto, by Emily Chang and Max Kiesler of Ideacodes. They have come up with some core principles for this:

- Design the system not the surface
- Design as evolutionary and user-driven
- There is no page, only pathways
- Rapid and iterative over final
- Simplicity over complexity
- Collaborative and open design

The first and third principles - 'Design the system not the surface' and 'There is no page, only pathways' - are especially relevant to me right now. I'm currently writing a chapter about my Design for Data theory, in the O'Reilly book I'm co-writing with Josh Porter, and it's very much about going beyond the Page metaphor on the Web. More on that soon, because I have a feeling I'm going to need feedback on this chapter from my blog readers...

Working day to day with both developers and end-users ... this is good advice to keep in mind.

Tags: Agile Methodology