Hi Ross,<br><br>I think you've hit on a really important point. In design and evaluation, objectivity is really hard to achieve.<br><br>We then end up designing for ourselves (know as self-referential design).<br><br>We can even justify it by using the "elastic-user", where we stretch user requirements to suit our own opinions.
<br><br>This topic came up before on this list, but one of the ways we get our clients to get away from this is using persona techniques.<br><br>Lar<br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Claude Saulnier</b> <<a href="mailto:claude.saulnier@wandsoft.com">claude.saulnier@wandsoft.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Passport swiping
only works if you have an Irish passport.</font></span></div>
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