I continue to get excited about applying the ideas from the software development community to interface design. This excerpt, from an editorial in Open Magazine, gets interesting if we replace “Open source” and and “source code” with “user interface design process”:
“Open Source is the realization that building innovative software can be achieved only by standing on the shoulders of giants, that true reliability can be obtained only through substantial peer review, and that selling software without providing source code is akin to selling cars with the hood welded shut.”
For me this means not only creating an interface design, but also showing the client what my process consists of. So once they take the product in-house they can continue the work. Or encouraging my peers to share their process (not just the end product) with me so I can stand on their shoulders.