To add a little bit: my experience has taught me I can get the exact same results with these two very different skills:
1. code the darn thing myself 2. use interpersonal communication skills to build relationships with developers while selling the value of "good design" These are both ways to get exactly what you dreamt of. I highly prefer #2. Again, just my 2 cents. On 10/9/07, Jeff White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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
