Comments on: Designers are from Venus, Six Sigmas are from Mars http://copernicusconsulting.net/designers-are-from-venus-six-sigmas-are-from-mars/ Design Research and Strategy Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:25:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Sam Ladner http://copernicusconsulting.net/designers-are-from-venus-six-sigmas-are-from-mars/#comment-907 Sam Ladner Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:57:17 +0000 http://copernicusconsulting.net/?p=289#comment-907 Yes, absolutely. I think the real problem with usability studies, writ large, is that they have a deductive logic but they try to achieve inductive results. It can't work. But most people don't learn that there are two essential paradigms in research inquiry. Why, if I have to hear, "How many people were in the sample?" one. more. time. I swear... Yes, absolutely. I think the real problem with usability studies, writ large, is that they have a deductive logic but they try to achieve inductive results. It can’t work.

But most people don’t learn that there are two essential paradigms in research inquiry. Why, if I have to hear, “How many people were in the sample?” one. more. time. I swear…

]]> By: Tanya http://copernicusconsulting.net/designers-are-from-venus-six-sigmas-are-from-mars/#comment-906 Tanya Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:51:03 +0000 http://copernicusconsulting.net/?p=289#comment-906 A List Apart even published an article entitled such a loooong time ago. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/marsvenus/ but they don't explicitly come out and say it ain't nuttin' but a positivist vs interpretivist thang. Does inductive, deductive (and possibly abductive) reasoning figure into this too? A List Apart even published an article entitled such a loooong time ago. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/marsvenus/ but they don’t explicitly come out and say it ain’t nuttin’ but a positivist vs interpretivist thang.

Does inductive, deductive (and possibly abductive) reasoning figure into this too?

]]> By: Sam Ladner http://copernicusconsulting.net/designers-are-from-venus-six-sigmas-are-from-mars/#comment-910 Sam Ladner Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:27:36 +0000 http://copernicusconsulting.net/?p=289#comment-910 Oh that's interesting, Tanya! I think you might be onto something there. User experience vs., say, timed task completion tasks? That sounds very venus vs. mars. Oh that’s interesting, Tanya! I think you might be onto something there. User experience vs., say, timed task completion tasks? That sounds very venus vs. mars.

]]> By: Tanya http://copernicusconsulting.net/designers-are-from-venus-six-sigmas-are-from-mars/#comment-909 Tanya Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:35:38 +0000 http://copernicusconsulting.net/?p=289#comment-909 I've always thought this was the crux of the designers vs. usability folk issue too. I’ve always thought this was the crux of the designers vs. usability folk issue too.

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