Someday, when I have more time (read if maybe perhaps eventually), I’m going to take the Cooper Interaction Designer Test and see what I can devise.
Projects like these are good for the mind; witness 37signals’ projects, like 37BetterBank and 37BetterFedex, which force the team to think along lines other than the ones they’re assigned. I do this on a micro scale with NetWert, which is still evolving (I’m currently digesting user feedback over whether it’s necessary to have Getting It Right separate from the Ideapad). Ideas evolve from practice that can then be applied in elsewhere.
And I can’t stand Microsoft’s table builders, either. (Cooper link via WebWord)