The After Effects team has long done “ship trips,” wherein they hang around a design shop, production facility, etc., watching over customers’ shoulders while generally trying to make themselves unobtrusive/useful (e.g. bringing bagels, etc.). Seeing someone doing real work is different than just talking about what they might like or need.
A number of my colleagues are enjoying some well-deserved R&R this month, so things are a bit quiet at the ranch, and I’m kind of itching to re-connect with the real world of design and production. If you’re a designer in the Bay Area who wouldn’t mind having some spiky-haired, slightly over-solicitous guy hang around your workspace a bit, please let me know so that we can try to sync schedules.
What a cool idea…how better can a software company get to know the needs/wants of their users?!
Next time you’re in the St. Louis area you’re invited to hang out with us in the studio and our creative group! A bit of a jaunt from the Bay area, though!!
Great idea! Direct customer feedback is key.
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I really, really like your sense of humor!!
(no itching man)
MUAAAHAAAAAHAA!!
I wish you were closer to Ottawa (Canada)
I wish you were closer to the Netherlands (Europe) 🙂
I have a air mattress and food, but no flight money to our small place in Grand Rapids, Michigan. You are very welcome, with the kids and Ms Nack.
If you were looking over my shoulder I would ask, is there a way to make that URL link box in Dreamweaver bigger? I keep having to scroll to make sure the address is right. Probably is a way, right?
John, you’re more than happy to come by our place and see what we’re doing in terms of site and mobile development and how we are doing UX designs today. But I’ll warn you, we barely use Photoshop and hardly use Fireworks. It’s mainly TextMate and CSSEdit.
You had me at “coffee”.