I personally respect the PMs I work with way too much to think they have time to create an elegant UI in addition to budgeting, scheduling, coordinating, project tracking, client/ mgmt appeasing, troops gathering, and all the assorted logistics. And do I want to do that stuff?? I sometimes do project management on UX-only projects. But for the larger, more complex stuff that I'm guessing most of us work on here, when it includes managing a team of developers? No way. (Especially when it involves using Excel ;) )
There is some overlap between our disciplines, yes--but then there is overlap in EVERY discipline with ours. I bristle when I read blanket statements such as the "vulcan" comment about programmers' lack of ability to come up with good UX ideas. Like everyone, they vary in their abilities.. so this kind of generalization is not only untrue, but can only hurt the perception of anyone in a UX role in its condescending tone, I believe. A good UX designer accepts input from the entire team--PMs, programmers, visual designers, writers, marketing, management, etc, etc. -- www.light-motif.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39701 ________________________________________________________________ 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
