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Major Section: MISCELLANEOUS
General Form of an Extended :Meta theorem: (implies (and (pseudo-termp x) ; this hyp is optional (alistp a) ; this hyp is optional (ev (hyp-fn x mfc state) a)) ; this hyp is optional (equiv (ev x a) (ev (fn x mfc state) a)))where the restrictions are as described in the documentation for
and, in addition, mfc
and state
are distinct variable
symbols (different also from x
and a
) and state
is literally the
symbol STATE
. A :meta
theorem of the above form installs fn
as a
metatheoretic simplifier with hypothesis function hyp-fn
, exactly as for
vanilla metafunctions. The only difference is that when the metafunctions
are applied, some contextual information is passed in via the mfc
argument and the ACL2 state
is made available.
See meta for a discussion of vanilla flavored metafunctions. This
documentation assumes you are familiar with the simpler situation, in
particular, how to define a vanilla flavored metafunction, fn
, and its
associated hypothesis metafunction, hyp-fn
, and how to state and prove
metatheorems installing such functions. Defining extended metafunctions
requires that you also be familiar with many ACL2 implementation details.
This documentation is sketchy on these details; see the ACL2 source code or
email the acl2-help list if you need more help.
The metafunction context, mfc
, is a list containing many different data
structures used by various internal ACL2 functions. We do not document the
form of mfc
. Your extended metafunction should just take mfc
as its
second formal and pass it into the functions mentioned below. The ACL2
is well-documented (see state). The following expressions may be
useful in defining extended metafunctions.
(mfc-clause mfc)
: returns the current goal, in clausal form. A clause is
a list of ACL2 terms, implicitly denoting the disjunction of the listed
terms. The clause returned by mfc-clause
is the clausal form of the
translation (see trans) of the goal or subgoal on which the rewriter is
working. When a metafunction calls mfc-clause
, the term being rewritten
by the metafunction either occurs somewhere in this clause or, perhaps more
commonly, is being rewritten on behalf of some lemma to which the rewriter
has backchained while trying to rewrite a term in the clause.
(mfc-ancestors mfc)
: returns the current list of the negations of the
backchaining hypotheses being pursued. In particular,
(null (mfc-ancestors mfc))
will be true if and only if the term being
rewritten is part of the current goal; otherwise, that term is part of a
hypothesis from a rule currently being considered for use. Exception: An
ancestor of the form (:binding-hyp hyp unify-subst)
indicates that
has been encountered as a hypothesis of the form (equal var term)
or (equiv var (double-rewrite-term))
that binds variable var
to the
result of rewriting term
under unify-subst
(mfc-type-alist mfc)
: returns the type-alist governing the occurrence of
the term, x
, being rewritten by the metafunction. A type-alist is an
association list, each element of which is of the form (term ts . ttree)
Such an element means that the term term
has the type-set ts
The ttree
component is probably irrelevant here. All the terms in the
type-alist are in translated form (see trans). The ts
are numbers
denoting finite Boolean combinations of ACL2's primitive types
(see type-set). The type-alist includes not only information gleaned from the
conditions governing the term being rewritten but also that gleaned from
forward chaining from the (negations of the) other literals in the clause
returned by mfc-clause
(w state)
: returns the ACL2 logical world
(mfc-ts term mfc state)
: returns the type-set
of term
the current context; see type-set.
(mfc-rw term obj equiv-info mfc state)
: returns the result of rewriting
in the current context, mfc
, with objective obj
and the
equivalence relation described by equiv-info
. Obj
should be t
, or ?
, and describes your objective: try to show that term
true, false, or anything. Equiv-info
is either nil
, t
, a
function symbol fn
naming a known equivalence relation, or a list of
congruence rules. Nil
means return a term that is equal
to term
means return a term that is propositionally equivalent (i.e., in the
sense) to term
, while fn
means return a term
-equivalent to term
. The final case, which is intended only for
advanced users, allows the specification of generated equivalence relations,
as supplied to the geneqv
argument of rewrite
. Generally, if you
wish to establish that term
is true in the current context, use the idiom
(equal (mfc-rw term t t mfc state) *t*)The constant
is set to the internal form of the constant term t
i.e., 't
(mfc-rw+ term alist obj equiv-info mfc state)
: if alist
is nil
then this is equivalent to (mfc-rw term obj equiv-info mfc state)
However, the former takes an argument, alist
, that binds variables to
terms, and returns the result of rewriting term
under that alist
where this rewriting is as described for mfc-rw
above. The function
can be more efficient than mfc-rw|
, because the terms in the
binding alist have generally already been rewritten, and it can be
inefficient to rewrite them again. For example, consider a rewrite rule of
the following form.
(implies (and ... (syntaxp (... (mfc-rw `(bar ,x) ...) ...)) ...) (equal (... x ...) ...))Here,
is bound in the conclusion to the result of rewriting some term,
say, tm
. Then the above call of mfc-rw
will rewrite tm
, which is
probably unnecessary. So a preferable form of the rule above may be as
follows, so that tm
is not further rewritten by mfc-rw+
(implies (and ... (syntaxp (... (mfc-rw+ '(bar v) `((v . ,x)) ...) ...)) ...) (equal (... x ...) ...))However, you may find that the additional rewriting done by
useful in some cases.
(mfc-ap term mfc state)
: returns t
or nil
according to whether
linear arithmetic can determine that term
is false. To the cognoscenti:
returns the contradiction flag produced by linearizing term
and adding it
to the linear-pot-lst
During the execution of a metafunction by the theorem prover, the expressions
above compute the results specified. However, there are no axioms about the
function symbols: they are uninterpreted function symbols. Thus, in
the proof of the correctness of a metafunction, no information is available
about the results of these functions. Thus,
these functions can be used for heuristic purposes only.
For example, your metafunction may use these functions to decide whether to
perform a given transformation, but the transformation must be sound
regardless of the value that your metafunction returns. We illustrate this
below. It is sometimes possible to use the hypothesis metafunction,
, to generate a sufficient hypothesis to justify the
transformation. The generated hypothesis might have already been ``proved''
internally by your use of mfc-ts
or mfc-rw
, but the system will have
to prove it ``officially'' by relieving it. We illustrate this below also.
We conclude with a script that defines, verifies, and uses several extended metafunctions. This script is based on one provided by Robert Krug, who was instrumental in the development of this style of metafunction and whose help we gratefully acknowledge.
; Here is an example. I will define (foo i j) simply to be (+ i j). ; But I will keep its definition disabled so the theorem prover ; doesn't know that. Then I will define an extended metafunction ; that reduces (foo i (- i)) to 0 provided i has integer type and the ; expression (< 10 i) occurs as a hypothesis in the clause.
; Note that (foo i (- i)) is 0 in any case.
(defun foo (i j) (+ i j))
(defevaluator eva eva-lst ((foo i j) (unary-- i) ; I won't need these two cases until the last example below, but I ; include them now. (if x y z) (integerp x)))
(set-state-ok t)
(defun metafn (x mfc state) (cond ((and (consp x) (equal (car x) 'foo) (equal (caddr x) (list 'unary-- (cadr x))))
; So x is of the form (foo i (- i)). Now I want to check some other ; conditions.
(cond ((and (ts-subsetp (mfc-ts (cadr x) mfc state) *ts-integer*) (member-equal `(NOT (< '10 ,(cadr x))) (mfc-clause mfc))) (quote (quote 0))) (t x))) (t x)))
(defthm metafn-correct (equal (eva x a) (eva (metafn x mfc state) a)) :rule-classes ((:meta :trigger-fns (foo))))
(in-theory (disable foo))
; The following will fail because the metafunction won't fire. ; We don't know enough about i.
(thm (equal (foo i (- i)) 0))
; Same here.
(thm (implies (and (integerp i) (< 0 i)) (equal (foo i (- i)) 0)))
; But this will work.
(thm (implies (and (integerp i) (< 10 i)) (equal (foo i (- i)) 0)))
; This won't, because the metafunction looks for (< 10 i) literally, ; not just something that implies it. (thm (implies (and (integerp i) (< 11 i)) (equal (foo i (- i)) 0)))
; Now I will undo the defun of metafn and repeat the exercise, but ; this time check the weaker condition that (< 10 i) is provable ; (by rewriting it) rather than explicitly present.
(ubt 'metafn) (defun metafn (x mfc state) (cond ((and (consp x) (equal (car x) 'foo) (equal (caddr x) (list 'unary-- (cadr x)))) (cond ((and (ts-subsetp (mfc-ts (cadr x) mfc state) *ts-integer*) (equal (mfc-rw `(< '10 ,(cadr x)) t t mfc state) *t*)) ; The mfc-rw above rewrites (< 10 i) with objective t and iffp t. The ; objective means the theorem prover will try to establish it. The ; iffp means the theorem prover can rewrite maintaining propositional ; equivalence instead of strict equality.
(quote (quote 0))) (t x))) (t x)))
(defthm metafn-correct (equal (eva x a) (eva (metafn x mfc state) a)) :rule-classes ((:meta :trigger-fns (foo))))
(in-theory (disable foo))
; Now it will prove both:
(thm (implies (and (integerp i) (< 10 i)) (equal (foo i (- i)) 0)))
(thm (implies (and (integerp i) (< 11 i)) (equal (foo i (- i)) 0)))
; Now I undo the defun of metafn and change the problem entirely. ; This time I will rewrite (integerp (foo i j)) to t. Note that ; this is true if i and j are integers. I can check this ; internally, but have to generate a hyp-fn to make it official.
(ubt 'metafn) (defun metafn (x mfc state) (cond ((and (consp x) (equal (car x) 'integerp) (consp (cadr x)) (equal (car (cadr x)) 'foo)) ; So x is (integerp (foo i j)). Now check that i and j are ; ``probably'' integers.
(cond ((and (ts-subsetp (mfc-ts (cadr (cadr x)) mfc state) *ts-integer*) (ts-subsetp (mfc-ts (caddr (cadr x)) mfc state) *ts-integer*)) *t*) (t x))) (t x)))
; To justify this transformation, I generate the appropriate hyps.
(defun hyp-fn (x mfc state)
(declare (ignore mfc state))
; The hyp-fn is run only if the metafn produces an answer different ; from its input. Thus, we know at execution time that x is of the ; form (integerp (foo i j)) and we know that metafn rewrote ; (integerp i) and (integerp j) both to t. So we just produce their ; conjunction. Note that we must produce a translated term; we ; cannot use the macro AND and must quote constants! Sometimes you ; must do tests in the hyp-fn to figure out which case the metafn ; produced, but not in this example. `(if (integerp ,(cadr (cadr x))) (integerp ,(caddr (cadr x))) 'nil)) (defthm metafn-correct (implies (eva (hyp-fn x mfc state) a) (equal (eva x a) (eva (metafn x mfc state) a))) :rule-classes ((:meta :trigger-fns (integerp))))
(in-theory (disable foo))
; This will not be proved.
(thm (implies (and (rationalp x) (integerp i)) (integerp (foo i j))))
; But this will be.
(thm (implies (and (rationalp x) (integerp i) (integerp j)) (integerp (foo i j))))


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Phoronix: AMD Releases R600/700 Programming Guide
AMD ended out last year by releasing basic R600/700 3D code that allowed the rendering of open-source triangles, but not much in the way of usable OpenGL acceleration for end-users. Just last month AMD had then pushed out new R600/700 code that plugged into the Mesa stack and is being used as the groundwork for the providing open-source OpenGL acceleration on the Linux desktop with newer ATI graphics processors. In between December and April, AMD had also released extensive documentation covering the 3D engines on the R600 and R700 graphics processors along with the R700 instruction set architecture. While the open-source 3D support is still emerging for the Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series, AMD has released some more documentation. This time around they have a programming guide for those developers interested in understanding the latest ATI GPUs.
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This spec shit is so nice only for this i buy a 3850 2 years ago 4350 1 year ago and last mond i buy a 4670 :-)
for the next peace of openspec shit i will buy a 4770 realy
One more time (I am still a bit confused here): which of the three radeon, radeon-rewrite and radeonhd drivers is at the frontline and most likely to add semi or proper 3D first?
radeon and radeonhd are xorg drivers, used for modesetting and 2d. Xorg uses mesa for 3d, so it doesn't matter which one you pick.
there are several branches of mesa, radeon-rewrite being one of them. bridgman has explained them several times (use the search function), but the baseline for end users is: pick whatever is announced on phoronix
Great! Thanx! I should have known that really. In my defense I am just emerging from a horrible cold and my much brain is still suspended
I am using radeon on my Thinkpad and have not tried radeonhd yet. I seem to hear less fuzz about the latter one but it is still actively developed no? Are there significant feature differences between the two in other areas such as 2D rendering, suspend/resume, xrandr and powerplay?
That makes me hope that my new onboard chips will be working nicely soon. And I hope that these powersaving features will also be implemented finally.
Nice going AMD!
Lets hope this helps in finally letting die that bad reputation Ati has for their drivers. The opensource drivers provide choice for the end user to pick the best driver available. It also means that these graphics cards will be supported for a long long time (because the community has the ways to do this). And it means that Ati is the way to go for the opensource guru that hates the binary blobs, which are the only things that other manufacturer provides .
Perhaps some day AMD/Ati will be the choice for Linux because good opensource drivers are available (my personal hopes are that the catalyst drivers will get a bit better as well, so they can really get on par with nvidias drivers).
Anyway: my next graphics card (after an HD4870, an HD3450 and an integrated HD3200) will certainly be an AMD/Ati one again.
Excited as well, but I still hope fglrx dies as soon as the open drivers catch up and it's not needed anymore. That circumvents them needing to open source it if there are issues with that, and then they can focus their efforts on a much more open future for the GNU/Linux platform.
Seeing the CCC open sourced would be neat too, but again, if they don't open source it I hope they help make an open source GUI to tweak their (and other) gfx cards or simply help contribute and enhance the graphics configuration GUIs and command line programs which already exist which would probably be more ideal. Perhaps enhance xrandr or something else to do more complicated tweaks to graphics performance (like mipmaps, various frequencies, etc etc).


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Viktor PFEIFER's circus themed program was totally lacking in energy. He sleepwalked his way through it like an abused and malnourished circus elephant.
Viktor PFEIFER's circus themed program was totally lacking in energy. He sleepwalked his way through it like an abused and malnourished circus elephant.
I will have to wait about 10 minutes before I actually see him, but I wanted to cheer: GO ADRIAN!!!!! SKATE LIKE WE KNOW YOU CAN!!!!
Gooo Adrian!!!
great program for Adrian!! huge 4t, then a stepout and some mistakes, but standing ovation for him!!!
the delated feed as well
lol! some problems with the replay! they showed also a bit of menshov!
anyway great 2nd with 178+!
Adrian SCHULTHEISS lands the 4t, but starts losing his rhythm on the jumps and borking the landings. He may be subject to some dreaded UR calls. I think the slow and overused Romeo and Juliet music did not serve him well. Really, he had so much more energy and excitement when he skated to "Smack My ***** Up".
Yup, 2nd place.
I wish he had looked a little bit more happy/excited.
maybe just my perception.
Adrian SCHULTHEISS (SWE)
From delayed feed...
4T - good
3A - scratchy landing, maybe UR
3Lz-2T - a bit shaky landing
3Lo - a bit lean on landing
3S - scratchy landing, twofoot, maybe UR
spin, didn't notice what kind
3A - stepout, no combo
3F - stepout
Score: 119.83, total 178.19 and 2nd for now
Adrian SCHULTHEISS skated to a medley of Massive Attack, Cypress Hill, Prodigy and some other songs for his Olympic LP. He skated in a stylized strait jacket and portrayed a nutter. He landed every single jump, including a quad perfectly. His imitation of a nutbag was uncanny. Unfortunately he was criminally underscored in the interpretation and performance marks. Go see it soon if you can.


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I was suspicious of this LORIOL-OBERWILER person from the moment I saw her depressing brown jacket.
And, really, what kind of name is LORIOL-OBERWILER?
Thanks - so it may have been a little short but I dont think it was anywhere near 90 degress under.
The truth is I hate some of these tight calls........and wonder why the most spectacular jumping pass in the history of Ladies skating is being overly scrutinized.
No wonder so many girls look like a nervous wreck.
All in all, I regret watching it live this early in the morning. TVU feed was cut in the middle so I couldn't even watch Joannie's and Miki's (but that's fine, I can't stand Miki's SP this season.)
I hope tomorrow would be a better day for Yuna.
At 07 coc, Technical Controller Ms. Junko HIRAMATSU gave step lv1. to yuna.
I think many of the discussions going on here prove that COP is a horrid tool... Yeah; neurotic, nervous wrecks, no one consistent, no stars (only stars that get downgraded by evil tech callers ... wasn't COP supposed to put an end to all that discussion about favoritism?)... If you read this thread you'll see it all.
Anyway; twitter from Ashley: "Note to self: skating cautiously leads to mediocrity."
Dear Ashley, you are far from mediocre, it wasn't your best skate just as it wasn't your worst. Go for it tomorrow!
I hope someone will put her SP at youtube... I'd like to know if she got dinged for more than a two-foot and a wrong edge... It's silly how we can't make sense of figure skating without a long list of unreadable protocols. Sighs.
So what you're saying is...Ms. Junko needs to be junked.
And she gave step lv2. to Kostner and Fumie at the same competition. She was really strict at 07 CoC. No skater got step lv3....


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like Inspector gadget , his does several thins
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This time of year, my car gets absolutely filthy. Every once in a while I'll use the squeegee at the gas station to get rid of the worst of the buildup on my windows, but I've long left the body of my car dirty because I assumed it wasn't possible to wash my car in a way that would be ecologically friendly.
For me, the thought of wasting gallons of water on an aesthetic exercise just seems silly, even though I know buildups of grime aren't great for my paint job. After enough friends mocked me about the state of my car, though, I decided that maybe it was time to do some research and see if it was possible to have my cake (clean car) and eat it too (clean AND green car).
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For one thing, my first instinct was right: the hose job at my place is not the way to go -- and that's even with a hose that I can turn on and off at the sprayer. Garden hoses pump out around seven gallons of water a minute, and that's a heck of a lot of water, most of which turns into runoff when you're washing a car on, say, that concrete driveway. That runoff can end up in the water table, or take the path of least resistance right into a creek or river, where it can cause problems for fish, plants, and other critters.
I could reduce the amount of runoff by tightly controlling the water I use and washing my car on grass or gravel for natural filtration, says Ask Umbra at Grist, but I'd still need to think about the soaps I'm using. Harsh industrial cleaners are not the way to go; environmentally-friendly biodegradeable soaps are strongly recommended so they can break down quickly in the environment. As for window cleaners, vinegar and old newspapers works a treat -- and doesn't leave unpleasant chemical traces behind.
Better yet, and this one surprised me, I could go to a car wash. Car washes use water more efficiently with their high pressure hoses and timers. Furthermore, they collect and either recycle or treat their water before releasing it, because they're required to do so and have had plumbers install greywater recycling systems. Instead of just running off into the wild blue wonder, that filthy water is safely managed when I go to the carwash...plus, they have those awesome giant vacuum cleaners.
There's another option, though, and that's waterless car washes.
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For stubborn stains and caked-on dirt, you may have to use some advanced cleaning tricks. Try applying cleaning spray and letting it sit for 10-15 minutes before scrubbing it away, and our old friend peanut butter can be great for really stubborn buildups of sap, gum, and mystery substances. While you're at it, you can refresh the inside of your car with a mixture of lemon and olive oil where you'd normally use Armor All -- and if you have mysterious odors trapped in the upholstery, try vacuuming, sprinkling with baking soda, letting it sit for half an hour, and then vacuuming again.
Whether you hit the car wash or go waterless, apparently you can clean your car and still feel good about yourself in the morning!
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Fellow countrymen Cueto, Volquez set to square off
Friends, former teammates to duel as Reds, Pirates resume series
Last week, when the Reds and Pirates met in Cincinnati, Johnny Cueto bested a good friend in fellow Dominican Francisco Liriano. On Tuesday, Cueto will duel with another buddy and countryman in former teammate Edinson Volquez.
Both Cueto (1.50 ERA) and Volquez (1.71 ERA) are off to nice starts to their seasons for their respective clubs.
Cueto dealt a three-hit shutout with no walks and 12 strikeouts to beat Liriano and the Pirates on Wednesday by a 4-0 score. Lifetime against Pittsburgh, he is 15-7 with a 2.22 ERA over 22 games -- including a 1.90 ERA over 13 games at PNC Park.
"When you say Johnny Cueto, that's a heavy pitcher," Reds catcher Brayan Pena said of Cueto's status in the league. "That's a guy that everybody knows who he is and everybody recognizes him, especially with that hair. He just competes and competes and competes. He goes out there and he battles. His confidence level is very high. It's good when you're behind the plate that his confidence level is so high that whatever you put down, he trusts."
Volquez, who pitched for the Reds from 2008-11 and won 17 games during his first season with the club, was an 11-2 winner over the Brewers on Saturday. He allowed two earned runs and eight hits over seven innings with one walk and three strikeouts.
In his career against the Reds, Volquez is 1-0 with a 3.93 ERA in three starts.
Reds: Mesoraco made adjustments
Reds catcher Devin Mesoraco is off to the best start of his young big league career, and the best stretch he's ever had. There weren't many wholesale changes to his hitting approach since last season, but some minor changes in working with new hitting coach Don Long.
"We wanted to get more athletic and not as mechanical as what I have been in the past. In Spring Training, I knew it was coming and I was pretty close," Mesoraco said.
Mesoraco felt things really started clicking after his rehab assignment at Double-A Pensacola and a conversation with Blue Wahoos manager Delino DeShields.
"I was talking with Delino a little bit and he told me to stand a little bit more upright and see how it feels," Mesoraco said. "That's when I started to stand upright and sink into my swing. I think that really freed everything up and allowed me to be more athletic. You definitely have to give him some credit for picking that out. It's a lot of little adjustments that make a big difference."
Pirates: Walker doing things 'right'
Neil Walker has heard so much criticism of his ability to hit right-handed that, by now, the words just roll off the switch-hitter's back. But something else that lately has rolled off his bat: hits off lefties. Walker is 5-for-12 batting righty, with already more extra-base hits (two, a double and a homer) than he had all last season.
"In today's day and age, with all the stats and numbers, [the focus on the splits] doesn't surprise me," Walker said. "I've learned to just ignore it. People are going to tell me how bad I stink right-handed, I don't really care. I could care less, because I know I can hit right-handed, it's just a matter of having the quantity of at-bats to stay sharp."
In 2013, Walker faced righties (457 plate appearances) about five times as often as southpaws (94).
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Monday marked the 800th start that Reds first baseman Joey Votto and second baseman Brandon Phillips have made together.
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Stop Explaining UX and Start Doing UX
Both design communities I've been involved in (graphic design and user experience design) spend an inordinate amount of energy bemoaning the lack of respect designers get and how misunderstood our value is.
Perhaps you've heard or even uttered statements like this:
I always include user research in my proposals, but clients never want to pay for it.
Nobody in our company understands what we do. They think we're just here to build wireframes and make things look pretty.
If I could convince management how important design is, they'd involve us earlier in the process and we could have more influence on the direction of the product.
Not surprisingly, there is no shortage of articles and blog posts about how to communicate the value of UX. We're told to learn how to speak to business people in terms they understand, like ROI and customer retention. We're told to point to case studies like Jared Spool's $300 million button in an effort to convince project managers that UX up front will save time and resources later due to fewer specification changes and faster implementation.
Many of us have been drawn into the "define the damn thing" debate. The industry needs to agree on a single definition, the argument goes, otherwise we'll never be taken seriously. Present a unified, coherent story to business leaders and, in theory, they'll recognize our value and give us a seat at the table.
If only people understood us, we'd get the respect we deserve, right? But how do we make ourselves understood?
The External Validation Model
If we model this strategy, it looks something like this:
The problem with this strategy is we're stuck in step 1—endlessly explaining, getting nowhere, and waiting like wallflowers to be asked to dance.
I ought to know—I spent years as a consultant fruitlessly trying to convince clients to spend money on things like the discovery phase, user interviews, and usability testing. I knew this stuff was important because I'd read a lot of books and articles and had gone to a lot of conferences. Moreover, I knew that I couldn't claim to be a "real" UX designer unless I was doing this stuff.
Here's the ugly truth: I wanted clients to pay me to do user research in order to cement my credentials, not because I truly understood its value. How could I understand it? I'd never tried it, because I was waiting for permission.
The problem with the external validation model is that it puts success out of our control and into the hands of our clients, bosses, and managers. It creates a culture of learned helplessness and a childish "poor me" attitude that frequently manifests in withering scorn for clients and executives—the very people upon whom our livelihood depends.
The Internal Validation Model
The great thing about being a designer is that if I don't like how a thing works, I can design something different. The external validation model clearly doesn't work so I've decided to try something else, something I'm calling the "internal validation model."
Without the conviction born of personal experience, all the explaining in the world won't get us what we want. Get that experience, and you will start to respect yourself and your skills, instead of relying on others to validate you. This confidence will give you the courage to act first, and get permission later. Confident actions are what win respect and trust. The more we repeat steps 1 through 3, the greater our influence and the more opportunities we will have.
Create Opportunities
The first, crucial step in this process is to create opportunities instead of waiting for them to be handed to you. How do you create opportunities? Here are a few ideas:
1. Stop comparing. If you've been persuaded that there is such a thing as "real UX" and that there are prescribed techniques and tools you must use before you can call yourself a user experience designer, eradicate that thinking right now. Steve Krug will not laugh at you if you're only able to do usability testing with your mom or the guy in the next cube. In fact, most of your peers will admire that you made the effort.
2. Don't wait for permission. If you have to do UX on the sly, without getting paid, then so be it. What's the worst thing that could happen? It's unlikely you'll be called on the carpet for trying to uncover usability issues everyone agrees need to be fixed. If you do get in trouble, your defense should always be that you're doing what's right for the project. No reasonable manager or client can object to this motive, they can only argue with your methods—at which point you have an opening to question a process that forced you to use stealth the first place.
3. Lower your sights. Offer to help in small ways, rather than insisting on implementing your full process. Of course you'd love to redesign the whole intranet, but the client only has a week. Do a heuristic review and find quick, visible wins that are easy to implement. You'll prove you know what you're doing and, more importantly, that you're flexible and easy to work with.
4. Offer to facilitate meetings. Everyone hates meetings, especially planning meetings. There are always too many people, no agenda, and a whole lot of arguing with few results. Usually, whoever called the meeting is a stakeholder and they're too involved to control the debate. What this meeting needs is a facilitator, a neutral third party to keep the discussion productive and moving forward. By lucky coincidence, user experience has a dozen techniques for getting ideas out, prioritizing and grouping them, getting agreement on action items, and keeping everyone engaged and participating. By offering to facilitate, you've relieved the meeting organizer of a burdensome role, you've provided an extremely useful and visible service to the team, and you're getting a front-row seat at the kickoff of new work.
5. Find the dysfunction. Any dysfunction in the workplace can be a design opportunity. Poor communication, lousy documentation, morale issues, confusing signage—talk about obvious places to improve user experience in the workplace! Some of these issues are difficult to get to the root of, which is exactly why no one else wants to tackle them. But as UX designers, we should be thrilled. How many of us feel like we don't get enough access to users? If you're solving UX problems at your company, users are all around you. Contextual research, surveys, task analysis, affinity diagramming—all these methods can be used to understand, analyze, and design solutions to workplace dysfunction.
6. Look outside UX. Is your company looking for volunteers to sit on a search committee or to help evaluate insurance plans? Believe it or not, these are opportunities for design. Once on the committee, you have a chance to use UX techniques to help guide research, discussion, and the eventual communication of the results to everyone else. Plus, you're making valuable connections across the company.
Demonstrate and Internalize Value
Demonstrate value every chance you get. Not just the value of design deliverables, but the value of design thinking and your value in particular. Do things that help people—that is what will win respect and trust. Once you have that trust, you can ask for the work you want. Although chances are you won't have to. The work will come to you because you've not only proven to your team that UX is worthwhile, you've proven it to yourself. Now you have the confidence and conviction to speak more fluently and persuasively about it.
For example, what if you said to a new client, "I'd like to do a card sort before we start the wireframes because I think it will help us with [these problems]. It'll only take a few hours. If you feel afterwards that it wasn't valuable, I won't charge you."
If the card sort is a success, you get valuable experience that you can leverage into more UX with the next client or on the next job with the same client. If it doesn't work, you still get valuable experience because you can analyze what didn't work about it. Maybe card sorting wasn't the right tool for the problem. Maybe you didn't have the right participants, or enough of them. Maybe you didn't do a good job communicating the results of the exercise. The point is, now you've got first-hand experience of what works and what doesn't and you'll be that much more confident and compelling the next time.
The external validation model ensures that we're always arguing from a position of weakness—begging for resources before our managers or clients have seen what they're buying.
We need to have the conversation about value after we've proven that the UX process works, not before. Think about the difference between saying, "Please give me resources to do three days of user research because it's really, really important," versus, "We did some quick, informal research and uncovered three major usability issues, so I'd like to talk to a few more users to validate these results."
Actions are stronger than words. We have the power to break the cycle of learned helplessness and earn the respect we crave—if we stop explaining UX and start doing UX.
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Nice framework, and MUCH better than whining. But. You're still trying to sneak it in through the window. If your clients don't get the value of research, in all seriousness you need to go after better clients. Not side gigs or guerilla UX or any of that. How come we never hear about guerilla accounting? (Our culture doesn't support auditability or balanced books, so here are a few things I do to sneak in a little regularity!) Or guerilla hr, which in most companies is openly acknowledged to be the most useless department?
I like Steve Krug personally, but that damn book has set us back 20 years by suggesting you don't really have to take this as seriously as you would, say, being a CPA. Or even a bookkeeper. Smart companies get it, just lke smart companies got seo in the early 2000s. Only idiots ignore that now.
Wow! This is fantastic advice. UX is one year old at our agency, traditionally designers made decisions and developers tried to implement their crazy schemes letting the chips fall where they may. I've had a hard time trying to get the 'external validation model' working, feeling like merely like a UI designer and not a UX practitioner doing 'real UX'. We've managed to sneak closer collaboration with colleagues in to break into silos and we've managed to implement some remote user testing stuff (with free accounts sadly) but at least it's something. Thanks for a great article, it will certainly colour the strategy of our little 2 person UX department going forward.
Great article! I was disappointed that it didn't take the tack that the title suggested in my mind, "Stop discussing how to grow and define the industry as an end, and let the work be an end." but by the end of the article, I came to appreciate how the bottom-up approach could have that effect. Subtle, but straightforward, and most importantly actionable!
The points raised in the article drew a great parallel to one of my recent struggles over the past year or so: learning to stop asking questions and fretting about deliverables, and instead producing whatever work helps to tell the user's story. Getting it wrong early is better than getting it right late. It engenders confidence, and maintains momentum.
Thanks for reminding me of this valuable lesson!
Tyler, thanks for the suggestion. I'm definitely thinking about tweaking the models a little.
Your situation is painfully familiar to me. As a consultant, I had an internal conflict of interest between trying to run a business and doing good design. My business side really HATED giving away free work because, damn it, hours were all I had to sell and I was trying to make a living. My design side wanted to take my time and do it right, regardless of how long that took.
One way to reconcile this is to be very clear about what your margin is and how much you can afford to give away. Also (and I was never very good at this) make sure the hours you give away are worth it — a few UX hours to get really great user feedback are a lot more valuable than those hours you can't charge for because the scope is out of control and you can't bring yourself to say no to the client.
I would suggest being explicit up front that you are giving them free UX hours because you understand that they don't have the budget for it this time and that they aren't sure if it worth it. When you show them the results, ask them if it was worth it and would they consider paying for UX in the future, assuming the budget was reasonable. Lower your sights: You might not be able to make the leap right away from a couple of hours to 3 days. But if they're a good client who trusts you, you should be able to nurture the relationship and gradually bring them around.
(For the record, it's MUCH easier to give advice like this than to follow it.)
Nice work, Kim. What would you think of switching "Create Opportunities" and "Demonstrate Value" (while adding your "Don't wait for permission" point) in your model? Not waiting for permission — doing a 3-user guerrilla card sort or including evidence of my own process — has worked out really well for me to create more opportunities. It becomes more about demonstrating my process than my deliverable, which gets me into more meetings.
The biggest problem I've had with this approach is that sometimes folks will say, "You did that for free in a couple hours last time. Why are you asking for three days on this similar project?" So begins my process/results/trust spiel. :)
Thanks again for this post!
Love this article! In my position, I've found that user research and early prototype testing are the things we tend to fall down on. So I'm actually designing an app not related to my work as a personal project, and I'm doing surveys, user interviews, and wireframe prototypes as a way of getting practice, in a way. This is helping me show the value of this stuff at work and feel more confident when I try and do it there.


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You argument is laughable. If japan own these islands they will compromise chinese/taiwanese economic zones (these are traditional chinese fishing fields for at least a thousand years), and neither did china openly acknowledged japans' legitimate control over it. Why do they have to concede to the japanese stance? Not to say Japan took this unilaterally without chinese knowledge back in 1890s.
Since the islands are uninhabited, the fair point of view is that it should belong to neither. INdeed, china always advocate "co-development" in the region which is quite fair by all means.
Japan denies there is dispute in the area, but all it matters is the military balance. As of china's military capability now, it is not difficult for them to take it over by force. The tension is of course all incited by japanese (the fishing boat incident, omg why the hell did japan coast guard try to chase the ship??!!) and the nationalisation one, which china interpreted as provocation and began to act tough.
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- RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer shown on the right - a self-replicating machine. This 3D printer builds the parts up in layers of plastic. This technology already exists, but the cheapest commercial machine would cost you about €30,000. And it isn't even designed so that it can make itself. So what the RepRap team are doing is to develop and to give away the designs for a much cheaper machine with the novel capability of being able to self-copy (material costs are about €500).
The RepRap project is a bit optimistic in their description -- their "self-replicating" machine is capable of printing all of the non-commodity parts of their machine, but still needs stepper motors, steel rods, screws, nuts, control circuitry, and of course a human to assemble the pieces.
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RepRap_Project
- http://reprap.org/
- http://www.reprap.org/bin/view/Main/McWire_Cartesian_Bot_1_2 - easy to follow instructions for a kit version of reprap.
- http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/Builders - the RepRap Builders wiki
- http://store.rrrf.org/ - the RepRap Research Foundation store
- decide what system to build
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Some parts of RepRap can be developed independently. In particular, the Extruder "print head" is pretty much independent of the chassis mechanism, and looks like a fun project. Might want to consider other print mechanisms too; this one may be specific to a few of the thermoplastics.
- [[User:TurksHead|TurksHead] has started building a McWire chassis. (10/22)
- [[User:Adi|adi] is researching print materials and print heads. (10/23)