Pattrick, I think what Chris, Andrei and I are saying is that hiring tomorrow will not be like hiring from today.
Personally, if you are hiring, I'd look to hire new grads more than experienced folks, IMHO depending on the size of your team and your current league of managers. But if you got good managers and leads already in place and are hiring in the middle, I'd go cheaper and go younger and you'd probably get much more bang for the buck AND they'd teach you a few things. This isn't about "jack of all trades" vs. "interaction expert". This is about "redefining" what is important for Interaction Experts really do. I think doing "deliverables" and "documentation" is much less important than being able to communicate final design that encompasses ALL aspects of the interface implementation short of production engineering. People talk about "agile" and UX. Well, for me this is much more important and more real AND more agile. Don't go to code first, go to prototype first and let the designer DO it and let the coder sit on the sidelines (or fix the bugs they created in the previous rev). If I never see "wireframe" as a deliverable again, I will be a happy man. The age of visio, omniograffle, axure, iRise, etc. I hope come crashing down (now offense to all the coders who worked hard on these tools), in favor of Fireworks, Catalyst, Flash, Blend and Illustrator, Coda, etc. But that's just my crystal ball. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
