WOW. I missed Dave's original comment and all I can say is, wow. I'm certainly glad that my early jobs didn't seek to "protect" me from learning a lot, and quickly.
There are certainly some things I wouldn't throw at junior staff. High-pressure client-facing meetings is one of them. ...Actually, I can't think of a lot more. I've been very happy with the ability that the smart people I've hired have shown to turn problems into design solutions, and if that means reading a bunch of books or learning a new software tool or skill to have the framework to come up with that solution, that's what they do. Cindy dave malouf wrote: the "cold water" approach is just "mean" IMHO and as human centered empathetic people, you'd think we would want to treat all aspects of our human capital with the same respect we give to our end-users, no? On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is that right for everyone? No. Could I take a different approach if > Involution weren't in Silicon Valley? Probably. But at the same time, > I'm only asking people to work how I work, and to get up to speed as > fast as humanly possible. > > But to make some wild implications I'm some ogre is way over the line. > > -- > Andrei Herasimchuk > > Principal, Involution Studios > innovating the digital world > > e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > c. +1 408 306 6422 > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
