Qualifications are IMO optional, it depends on where you get mentored 1) teachers/bosses 2) books 3) hacking. Passion combined with aptitude will allow greatness grow, especially those diamonds that form in the pressure of deliverables... be it self-imposed or externally.
> Since when do designers do what John Q says. We are strategic problem > solvers who look for the latent problems that John Q can't > articulate. Amen brotha! Relatedly, 1) Often users being heads down will be 'in the box' behaviorally trained to stay in that box, are unable to even know what solutions are possible. Outside the box, we are free to see how a given medium can minimize a particular workflow for a particular, and in particular with workflows measuring the benefits to such changes differentiates it from purely subjective design. Schooling and corporate culture can produce a similar behavior conditioning, which is why cross-disciplines teams tend to produce innovation. 2) in interaction design and experience design, great products often boil down to flow states, which by definition are getting people to move through the system fluidly without paying much attention to the details, so ask end user to say why they like an ipod better than some other mp3 player and they can't really enumerate, it's just makes them happy. The downside to this for us, is that XD+IA are illusive. It's that savory flavor, most can't really describe, so either don't allocate resources for the recipie or spend volumes of hours trying to recreate it. ________________________________________________________________ *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
