Russell, Do you actually have separate people responsible for Interaction Design, Visual Design, Information Design and Information Architecture Design? I can clearly see the need for a separate visual designer, because that is a skill that rarely crosses over with the others. But your other three design roles seem to overlap so much that it hard for me to see where you are helped by separating them.
I am probably projecting my experience with web application design onto your diagram, but in all the teams I've led or been involved with I would be hard pressed to separate interaction, information and information architecture design into separate processes. Joseph Selbie Founder, CEO Tristream Web Application Design http://www.tristream.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilson, Russell Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:05 AM To: IxDA List Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Who designs what? (see diagram...) 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
