Chris,
agreed.
Designers (all of them, not only those working on digital products) have
to been savvy in business, technology, and human factors/psychology
thinking. The more broad the better. The separation between industrial
and communication design for example, was not there when the discipline
emerged at the Bauhaus in the 20s.
On the other side, there will always be need for specialists, such as
* 3D Designers
* Motion Designers
for IxD, that would mean
* Social Interaction Designers
* Workflow/Business IxDs
* Service IxDs
etc.
But design is an art of linking, bridging and connecting,
and thus not comparable to classic "knowledge" disciplines.
A deep knowledge in those other disciplines involved, be
it technical, user or business related, helps a lot!
And for IxD, technology is something essential.
milan
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