In a way, we've seen this "erosion of value" happen before. The first Mac brought desktop publishing to the consumer - and to this day, we are inundated with poorly designed flyers and newsletters.
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Shep McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a way, we've seen this "erosion of value" happen before. The first > Mac brought desktop publishing to the consumer - and to this day, we > are inundated with poorly designed flyers and newsletters. > Agreed - on the other hand - no matter how "easy" desktop publishing/design tools are - they will never replace a designer with a non-designer. in things that matter. You either know typography or you don't, and access to the entire adobe font folio doesn't replace training, education, and years of critique. When notepad was replaced by wysiwyg, the web proliferated with web sites -- 99.999% were complete crap. And even in the design community - many print designers with strong design backgrounds jumped on the web and made some of the most aesthetically pleasing and completely useless/unusable/inaccessible sites around (this continues now with agencies building flash sites like crack addicts). But to Mark's point - when I was doing extensive user research for a complex quantitative software package for risk modeling - many of the users did in fact take mastery of the very complex software package as a point of pride - and frankly didn't want me there doing contextual inquiry because they were frightened by the idea of the software becoming easier/simpler to use. The were well paid, and behaved almost like priests in charge of sacred rituals with their mystical ability to create probability curves out of ether through incantations and sacred rituals - they didn't want a protestant reformation of the process - their power gave them comfort. ________________________________________________________________ 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
