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Things are still pretty rough around here, around this text in fact. But this web site is going to kick some serious butt, by the time we are done with it!

As someone once said: "Design is the art of gradually applying constraints until only one solution remains." There are lots of constrains when building an application. Both social networking application and the content management system are still clunky and hard to control. We’re finding that some of these limitations are helping us zero in on the design faster. What remains are the details. To quote Charles Eames : "The details are not the details. They make the design." And that’s where we are now.

This site’s usability is still improving on many levels; from better flow of content to clear navigation. We need to address many inconsistencies. The toughest part of all this is the gradual, iterative nature of this process. It’s hard enough to execute a design vision, but try keeping to the task at hand while the target design keeps moving. No doubt, this is much more frustrating to the developers then to the design team. But its also the exciting part of this approach. It’s not too often we get chance to work with an evolutionary product which will have much higher impact then the usual deliver-and-walk-away method that is so typical in the agency world.

What will hopefully keep the team going is both the negative (yet constructive) feedback on what we’re doing wrong and the support of those in the community who have been waiting for improvements like the ones we are making. Here is bigtoe6565 <a href="http://community.aarp.org/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=6&nav=messages&webtag=rp-computers&tid=11329">sharing the love</a>.

And that’s today’s rant, onto another meeting...