On Dec 19, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote: > On Dec 18, 2007, at 2:21 PM, Jared M. Spool wrote: > >> What it sounds like you're trying to say is that somehow designers >> are more enlightened about good design than usability practitioners. >> I think this is a fallacious argument (and, to some, probably >> insulting). > > Generally speaking good designers are more enlightened about good > design. If a usability wants to learn more about what it takes to > craft good design, then that person will become enlightened. However, > given equal education in theory and academics, unless a person > *crafts and makes* a product with their own two hands, there's no way > they will ever know as much as the person who does. Simple as that.
Yes, yes. Many people who conduct usability practice these days are not specialists, but generalists on the design team with other responsibilities, including design. Because design teams have been shrinking over the last ten years, you rarely find teams consisting of specialists. (Wrote about this here: http://tinyurl.com/2oba65) The result is, as already has been mentioned in this thread, that many usability practitioners also regularly "craft and make" elements of the designs their teams produce. I don't understand why there's a need to drive this dividing line between design professionals and usability professionals. I understand that many people don't like Jakob's approach to expressing his notion of right and wrong, but he doesn't represent the state-of- the-art in usability practice any more than Steve Jobs represents the way things are done across all of design. Why is it important that designers distance themselves from the evaluation side? Where is this coming from? Jared ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
