Designing distractions
29 Oct 2012
Style can't mask poor design. Equally, design can't be used as a crutch for flawed business strategies.
If your core product isn’t right, an investment in design won't prevent the inevitable. At best, it will simply provide a distraction from the larger issues you need to tackle. Instead, use every design decision as a hypothesis to better understand and adapt to the problem you're trying to solve. Otherwise, you're just making excuses.
Also read... Road to UX perdition
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I'm Jon Bolt, Principal UX Designer at Brightpearl and creator of bagelhint. Interested in startups, design and agile.
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