Russell, Thank you for the clarification.
I'm not sure it would be helpful as far as your immediate purpose for your diagram, but I would add team lead, or lead designer, or some such title to your list, and I would show all the roles you identified funneling into the lead designer. In my experience providing contract services inside over 100 different companies, and in a formal study Tristream conducted about how teams structure themselves to best develop web applications, the best teams always had a lead designer(s) (sometimes it was a pair, rarely a triumvirate). This person had the most holistic view of the project -- business goals, user needs and IT capabilities and limitations -- and sat in a creative nexus in the center of the project. Sometimes this person came from a programming track and had become comfortable with the tools and practices of design. More often it was senior IX designer able to effect the entire team's design process at a user strategy and user experience level. Sometimes they actually designed, other times they directed other's designs. But it was always clear that the lead held the vision. Joseph Selbie Founder, CEO Tristream Web Application Design http://www.tristream.com -----Original Message----- From: Wilson, Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 12:14 PM To: Joseph Selbie; 'IxDA List' Subject: RE: [IxDA Discuss] Who designs what? (see diagram...) Joseph, No, I don't. I called them out to raise awareness among non-design teams about the different things we designers do. Like you, I have three distinct roles: 1) visual designer 2) IA/Interaction designer 3) Usability expert/testing -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Selbie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 1:30 PM To: Wilson, Russell; 'IxDA List' Subject: RE: [IxDA Discuss] Who designs what? (see diagram...) 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
