In the many discussions (arguments?) about defining IxD this is by far the most reasonable answer I've ever hears.
In reality, we're all going to have different specialties anyway, and there's nothing wrong with looking for employees with specific specialized skills, like coding, or IA, or whatever. But in the end, to call yourself an IxD there are certain base skills you should have. Makes sense to me. It's not just doctors that work like this.. lawyers, pilots, artists, .. well, basically every profession has different subsets of specialized skills. Why should we be any different? On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Charles B. Kreitzberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei: > > This issue of "how to define" comes up over and over and, IMO, is a can of > worms. Rather than trying for one size fits all, I would suggest that we > think about a competency model in which Joe can be a "basic designer" and > Sue has added a specialty or competence in lightweight prototyping and Sally > also has an IA competence. > > Then all the designer's skills would be clear upfront. > > This is how MD's do it. Every doctor has a set of basic skills and then they > specialize. Psychologists do that as well (e.g. you can get a specialization > in forensic psychology, family psych etc.). > > None of this will ever be easy or free from emotion but I think we need to > be very careful about what sort of box we place ourselves in. > > Charlie > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Matt Nish-Lapidus work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.bibliocommons.com -- personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ 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
