On Sep 25, 2008, at 9:27 AM, mark schraad wrote:
That's odd. Over the last 10 years we have seen exactly the opposite.
We have. And its been a travesty.
The reason we have seen this is that a lot of people in charge of
design teams in Silicon Valley bought the concept that "interaction"
designers and "visual" designers are two entirely different people.
That trend is starting to change finally -- slowly at first -- as it's
becoming more and more clear that hiring expensive interaction
designers who have no formal aesthetics skills is both costly and
yields products that aren't good enough. Only a few select companies
can get away with it at this stage, and they will change in the future
too.
If you think you deserve $100K+ a year and all you do is define the
interaction and draw workflow diagrams for a software product, you are
boxing yourself into a serious corner. Especially in the current
economic climate.
Further, it's easier to train graphic designers in the art of
interaction design than it is to train interaction designers in the
art of graphic design. Especially when interaction designers see no
point of learning how to draw while graphic designers often crave to
learn more beyond the visual. I know my experience is anecdotal, but I
find many a graphic designer really wanting to learn to do more, and I
find a lot of interaction designers offended when I ask them if they
intend to learn visual skills.
--
Andrei Herasimchuk
Principal, Involution Studios
innovating the digital world
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