{"id":59,"date":"2007-11-29T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2007\/11\/29\/understand-before-you-design\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T00:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T00:27:00","slug":"understand-before-you-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2007\/11\/29\/understand-before-you-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Understand before you design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t understand the underlying structure of the work that is being done in a particular setting, then you cannot design the technology that will best support it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalo.edu\/news\/8992\">University at Buffalo News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t understand the underlying structure of the work that is being done in a particular setting, then you cannot design the technology that will best support it.&#8221; From the University at Buffalo News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75BYE-X","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":90,"url":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2006\/04\/23\/i-was-a-guest-on-design-critique\/","url_meta":{"origin":59,"position":0},"title":"I was a guest on Design Critique","date":"April 23, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I had the pleasure of being on Design Critique, a podcast with Tim Keirnan and Tom Brinck in which they - and sometimes a guest - critique usability and design of a product or service, with an eye to highlighting elements that have to do with delivering a good customer\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":162,"url":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2009\/12\/18\/partially-designable-society\/","url_meta":{"origin":59,"position":1},"title":"partially designable society","date":"December 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Partially designable society. 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