Pragmatism Or Idealism

pragmatism or idealism:a user experience conundrum

Iain Barker

Iain Barker | UX Australia 2009

No, no, no!!! I won’t let it happen. It can’t work that way!

We must launch. We will launch. Ha ha ha ha!!!




Iteration 94Iteration 95Iteration 96Iteration 97Iteration 98

Yippee!! Lets go again Not again!


Is good ever good enough?


“idealism is what precedes experience;cynicism is what follows”David T. Wolf


“idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance

from the problem”John Galsworthy


“idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost

becomes prohibitive”William F. Buckley


Design is compromise

“making the right trade off between the ‘right’ interface for the designer, and the ‘possible in my lifetime’ reality confronting the engineer”


benchmarks user experience strategyuser research


Sometimes good has to be good enough!

When you are standing in the gutter, aiming for the stars might be too far to go in one step.

I’d rather get to the pavement as quickly as possible rather than spend all that time building a space ship standing in rubbish.


Iain Barker | Freelance user experience consultant

[email protected]://simplerisbetter.wordpress.com

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