You don't have to change your focus from design to development. Find an industry where design matters or a corporation that values design as a differentiator. There is no lack of these industries or corporations, and the list is growing.
If I was building web sites for small clients who have few $$ and a no inhouse dev staff, and they wanted everything yesterday and the value to their business was having a web site at all, not in it leading the market place....then of course, I would hire that extra developer versus a designer. This is a "well duh" situation as a designer, and you shoud move on. Lastly, there are product areas where design doesn't enable "make it better" attributes (useable/beautiful). Design is the product, it is the thing itself you are buying, it enables the creation. I think the iphone is a good example. It is not a phone. It is a new product category...most similar to the PDA, but through design I think it breaks through into something other than that...which is mainstream. On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Scott McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > matters in the end. A more usable or beautiful end result is harder > to prove in a countdown > of hours and money for a client project. > > Damnit :-| > > Scott > > ________________________________________________________________ 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
