A designer better works solo

I have a strong feeling that designers work better solo. When alone one does not waste time in meetings (which i think are alternative to work) and explaining things to others. Maya lin was a single person, so was Leonardo da Vinci ... but unfortunately todays management does not allow people to work solo.
The other fact is also that working solo, one does what he likes and can discontinue at any point of time, One need not do anything for the sake of it.

An tweak should not drive the concept

It is really easy to like an idea so much that letting go of it becomes really tough. The concept should not evolve around the idea. The idea should just be an attribute of the concept. People like the small features(the tweaks and the twigs) of their ideas so much that base the entire concept across the idea. E.g. Our project for CHI 2008 is to help the homeless, and our concept of building a digital library some how is driven too much by the fact that we like seeing the Digital version of the library, where one can navigate around the books like one does across library racks. I agree that this is a nice idea but should not be the driver of the concept.

Another similar example could be creating an e book that looks very similar to the actual book. Where flipping of pages can be possible instead of scrolling.

The first post

Hello world,

This is Ankit khare (AK) ... i am a student at Indiana univ. studying HCI/d. This is my first post and i an seriously going to blog about design :)