On 9 Oct 2007, at 21:10, Shaun Bergmann 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. [snip]
Aye. I also think there is a big difference between: 1) Many developers are not good at IxD/UX/whatever 2) Developers should not do IxD/UX/whatever I can agree with the first. I'll fight the second - hard - because it's been my experience that you get far better results when developers are involved at that level. 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
