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Hier findet ihr ein Interview mit Doug Look, dem “Strategic Designer” für die Autodesk Labs.

[..] Doug: I think you got it just right. I wasn’t around when Autodesk Labs was established, but I think it’s been around for just under a year. It is a way to engage customers and users. It allows us to put up trial balloons for new things that maybe the engineers cooked up.

Every so often, we get requests through entries in the blogs, or there’s someone from a discussion group requesting a certain feature. One example was somebody wanted an easy way to publish their model information from Autodesk Inventor to our Freewheel site, which is our zero client way of viewing both 3D and 2D model information. Folks at the labs took it on, and I think within three weeks or so, they had something up.

It’s really a test-bed. We have the ability to maybe have a little bit less process than other parts of the company, because this is not production quality kind of development. It’s really about offering as much as you can, getting it out there, with the hope of getting early and direct feedback from our users. [...]

Interview with Doug Look – Strategic Designer – Autodesk Labs