On 26 Jan 2008, at 17:27, Mark Schraad wrote: [snip] > Look at the roster of designers at IDEO, Cooper, Razorfish... and so > many other firms. If you look up their qualifications, you will find > lots of very qualified people doing great work that do not have a > formal design education. Lots of good professional designers do NOT > have deep theory or a craft background. This is not an component that > is required (but I would agree that it has a huge upside) no matter > how much we wish it so. And, it can be learned in a good work > environment. Frankly, I believe that foundation skills are much > easier to teach in a working environment than user/customer empathy > and market vision. [snip]
I've also found teaching in the workplace to be effective. I wonder if your working environment resembles the studio system that David described? Cheers, Adrian ________________________________________________________________ *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
