Can you dream me up a winning lotto ticket as well? Thanks in advance. :-) My two cents is: the developers I work with are better developers than I will ever be. I am a better designer than they will ever be. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this.
The two professions are extremely complex and take years to master. It's a disservice to the products you design to think you really can do both and get the same results as a team with varied skillsets. On 10/9/07, Shaun Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/9/07, Katie Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > If your background is in the system, then you can't have the > > viewpoint of the user. The more completely aware you are of the > > former, and the more you design around it, the less you can design > > for the latter. > > > While I agree with the general sentiment put forth by this community (and > echoed in books such as 'The Inmates are Running the Asylum'); that > Programmers are not Interaction Designers, it is still general. > It's fairly accurate and I'm sure we'd have no problems in coming up with > hundreds of examples to prove why that sentiment exists, but it's still a > generalization and as such, it has some pretty powerful exceptions. > > Aside from the obvious factors of time constriants and short deadlines, > imagine yourself waking up tomorrow morning with a miraculous braindump of > technical know-how: > You wake tomorrow morning still the Interaction Designer you are today, > but > you are suddenly gifted with absolutely every tidbit of knowledge and > skillset required to do EVERYTHING in your project. > You are suddenly an award winnig graphic artist, you are suddenly the best > and fastest coder this side of the Mississippi, you are a God in flash > programming, Java, AJAX, C++ and can describe the intricacies of server > side > processing without blinking. > However, you are still the Interaction Designer you were last night when > you > went to bed, but now you have the skillset required to guarantee the > system > is going to react and breathe exactly as you have already planned out. > > The fact that you have the skillset to make this happen from the top down > and backwards -- does not suddenly render you less capable of Design. If > anything, you have more power to get exactly what you dreamt of. > ________________________________________________________________ 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
