HI Jackson, On your 2 pts.
re: trends No doubt the UI is getting more complex and the need for amazing programmers to work on them is important. But I think tools like Blend and Catalyst are stepping in and putting in a new layer that previously wasn't there and enabling designers to more forward. (see below) re: the malleability of software and parallelism yea, done that, been there. Seriously. This is a pipe dream. Design control is the only way to get designer intention out of production engineering. Phased approaches that separate pre-production & production will always produce more accurate results of the designer's intentions. BTW, this problem is not only ours. IDs have this problem in studios where they don't take on the engineering schematics of all surfaces. In those cases, where it stops with mere models that are not in the engineering databases (sorry for too much ID speak; maybe you all should learn some) the ODMs often come in and change the outcome at points that can't be re-done. Oh Well! Yup, this happens everyday in software too. So unless you have an appearance model that is fully signed off on with staged approaches of production checks that design reviews throughout with other stakeholders, you'll end up with skewed execution from the intention. BTW, designs are not done w/o engineering collaboration. At least not where design is done well. That's a given. Also, often there are tons of parallel things to be done in the architecture and platform of systems (the stack) way below the GUI layer. So there ARE parallelisms for sure. Just not at the usable form layer of presentation and behavior. - 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
