Hi Joseph, On 9 Oct 2007, at 17:38, Joseph Selbie wrote:
> We have a brilliant display coder on our team. He rocks when it > comes to > pushing the edge in AJAX type projects. He understands how his code > will > need to be implemented and is often helping our client's > programming teams > make better use of their environment. > > He's also a really good IX designer. He doesn't let his knowledge > of the > underlying code push him into doing things the easy way. He stays > focused on > the needs of the users. > > He is rare is my experience. They're becoming less rare as time goes on (in my experience anyway). It also depends where you look (e.g. I find developers on the Mac platform generally have more UX skills than those on Windows). > However, in practical terms, we use him mostly for coding because > there is > just so much to do. We have other very talented IX designers on our > team, we > don't have other people with his brilliance in the code. > > So, I would tend say that the two roles can coexist in one person > temperament wise and skill wise -- but there just isn't enough time on > projects for a person to do both. That depends on the project, the people and the skills they have ;-) Even when somebody with developer-ix skills is primarily in the developer role I find them very useful since they are much more capable of dealing with inevitable changes during product development in an appropriate way (even if it's just "hey - this new fribble just sucks for the end-user. Please fix it." :-) I've found if I can get the whole team with some UX knowledge, even if you have to spend some time to put it there first, it makes development as a whole a vastly better process. It frees you up to deal with the hard problems that really need an expert. Cheers, Adrian ________________________________________________________________ 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
