Hi Russell, Some great thought here. This is precisely why I was pushing the 'who designs' discussion a while back. Just 5 minutes ago I came out of a meeting with a channel (business) group and they kept saying "when you create mocks", in fact so did the CD. The implication being, that we designers create some picture so that the business, product and marketing folks can decide what will be included and where to move stuff around. Certainly it is easier for those folks to work from a visual reference point. Granted this is an extreme case of misperception, but honestly thinking about past projects... many, many product design decisions are made by what is thought of on this list as "non-design" roles.
Specific to your question... loads of people make contributions and decisions about the functional requirements besides engineering. I think your diagram needs to be much broader and include users, purchasers, marketers, revenue directors, and designers. Mark On Thursday, October 04, 2007, at 12:06PM, "Wilson, Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Given that "design" is a very overloaded and broad term, I often >find it necessary to communicate what "product design" is responsible for, >and "who designs what". > >To that end, I created this very basic diagram. I'd love to get feedback from >members of the list. >The purpose is to spell out who is designing what and provide an indication of: > >1) structure of the two depts. > >2) responsibilities of the two depts. > >3) communication between the two depts. > >What did I leave out? Is this the stupidest thing you've ever seen? >(obviously this would be part of a discussion and not intended to stand by >itself, although I suppose >I could evolve it to become more self-explanatory) > >[cid:[email protected]] > > > >Russell Wilson | Director of Product Design >NetQoS, Inc. | 5001 Plaza on the Lake, Austin, TX 78746 >512.334.3725 (v) | 512.422.4155 (m) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL >PROTECTED]> >NetQoS: Performance Experts >www.netqos.com<http://www.netqos.com/> ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Guidelines ............ http://beta.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://beta.ixda.org/help Unsubscribe ................ http://beta.ixda.org/unsubscribe Questions .................. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home ....................... http://beta.ixda.org
