On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:35 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
If you're going to use software technology examples, considering we are still in early stages of that tech, we should acknowledge that most of the great "interaction designers" up until now haven't been designers at all. They've been engineers. It's going to be like that for some time. In Dan's list, more than half of those people were engineers first, and would probably call themselves engineers still, not designers.
I would submit that they called themselves and what they were doing are different things. At the time they were working, there was no formal discipline of interaction design. Yes, many of them relied on good engineering to make what they did possible, and in some cases they had to build that themselves. But designers still do this all the time. I build prototypes in code and electronics, but I don't call myself a coder or electrical engineer. We shouldn't confuse title with role, or tools with purpose and methology and especially not in our early history.
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