A List Apart: Design Criteria: Actionable Ideas

• Use design criteria to emphasize specific rules for your team to follow
• Constraints are not bad. Constraints are freedom.
• Collaboration doesn't have to be painful. Collectively define the problem at hand, and generate team-supported ideas
• Design criteria need to be actionable items, not esoteric concepts

In a sense I felt like this was an extestion to Leah Buley's UX presentation at the IA Summit in Miami earlier this year. But Sarah gave her own spin on the Adaptive Path design process, emphasizing focus. Playwright August Wilson as an excellent example of focusing on something and carrying it through. She also used another artist (Flavin?) for exploring vast concepts through a specific method of light tubes. Basically the connecting theme here so far is mastery of your craft begets a higher level of quality, which begets better respect for web design as a craft.