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On Oct 8, 2007, at 4:25 PM, "Wilson, Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is connected to my post about career paths for designers. > > The bottom line is that more often than not individual contributors > are not rewarded (in compensation and status) as much as "managers". > > What I think we really want is not to become something simply because > that role is what is rewarded, but to elevate the status and > compensation > of what we do as individual contributors. Why can't a great > designer within > a company have the status, political power, and compensation of a > Vice President? > (in a few cases they do, but it's not the norm). > > But to become a manager, when "managing" is an entirely different > discipline > and requires different talent, just to conform to a broken system, > seeking > better rewards, seems like the wrong path to me... > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ] On Behalf Of Christopher Fahey > Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 8:48 PM > To: IxDA > Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] d schools > > Mark Schraad wrote: > >> nice article on desgin talent and d-schools on this morning's bweek > > > I don't understand why those of us who design things keep praising "d- > schools" and "design thinking". > > The theory behind design thinking & d-schools is, to me, this: > "Design is important. Too important to be managed by those fuzzy > people who actually do design. It's time for designers to step aside > and allow themselves to be led by a new generation of MBAs who have > taken a couple of courses about design (but who don't do design)." > > How does this help us? It seems to me that the purpose of a D-School > is to rob us designers of a career path and to allow MBAs to manage > us instead of allowing us to pull ourselves up into corporate > management. It circumvents what I deeply believe is the natural > evolution of business towards more design-centric (which is to say > user experience design-oriented) management. > > We designers, I think, are too starry-eyed and flattered by the term > "design thinking" ("Ooh, they want business people to think like I > do!") to notice that it may well be a tool to pull us out of the > management loop. > > What do you think? > > -Cf > > Christopher Fahey > ____________________________ > Behavior > biz: http://www.behaviordesign.com > me: http://www.graphpaper.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 > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
