Hi Charlie, On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:52:50, Charlie Kreitzberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have always positioned myself with clients as the person > responsible for the "conceptual design" of the product. I take > input from both the business stakeholders and the technical team and > synthesize their requirements and constraints into a product that I > present to them for review -- typically as a model or design > prototype. > > This allows me to play a strategic role in the product development > rather than being a support person as so often happens to technical > writers and business analysts. > > At the end of the day, the issue is not about who is subordinate to > whom but who "owns" various aspects of the project. Clearly the > business people own the business strategy and the technical team own > the technical architecture. IMO, the Ix Designer should own the > conceptual design of the product and the elements that users view and > touch. >
Where does that leave the solution architect. What claim does he have to conceptual design of the product? Infact in the software houses that produce highly technical software (say electronic design software) aimed at businesses and not end consumers, a solutions architect would be the one who will be conceptualizing and designing behaviour of the product. That leads to some after thought questions: 1. Dont the high tech softwares aimed at high tech businesses need people with deep technical knowledge for conceptualizing the product. Does an IxD designer with no or cursory domain knowledge be able to conceptualize a product at all? 2. Will it make sense to equip the solutions architect himself with the interaction design sense also so that he can create products that are technically as cutting edge as is required by the businesses and also have some sense of user happiness? 3. Even if the team in such a space does have an IxD designer, wont the overall conceptualization still be owned by the solution architect given the fact that functionality (computer-computer interaction) is supreme in such scenarios and not human-computer interaction and the IxD designer will most probably be there for the support role for doing the look and feel design. Your views? Thanks Pankaj ________________________________________________________________ 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
