I spent my usual hour browsing my feeds in Bloglines and found a highly relevant topic. It describes the necessity to link any design with the userbility. This is a highly relevant topic that cannot be to highly prioritated when building any kind of product.
Via Digital Web, Jess McMullin has come up with one of the best summaries I’ve seen of what design can be. Make sure to grab the continuum model PDF.
Briefly summarized, the PDF describes design as a continuum that progresses from no conscious design to focus on style, then to the form and function level, eventually settling into problem solving, and finally, if you’re lucky, morphing into something redefining and potentially disruptive.
source: http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/10/21/design_matur/index.php
Original blog: http://www.bplusd.org/2005/10/20/most-designers-arent-design-thinkers-yet/