50. Silicon Mirages

We refer to Technology-Centered Design as the practice of incorporating features into a product solely because the technology is available to do so.

This also applies to technological updates for their own sake. Simply because they are available.

The key is always to appropriately focus on each design dimension: considering the user, the sponsor, the client, the problem, and the technology, without amplifying any of them based solely on our biases.

Each dimension should provide value to users in a quantity greater than the effort applied.

We don’t want our teams to follow mirages that promise an oasis simply by following technology.

Technology must always be a means to an end, not an end in itself.