As someone who is currently looking for full time employment in this field, what I hear Jared say is music to my ears! I started out as an Information Architect/Content Strategist and then over the last ten years have inverted that to being more of a Content Strategist/Information Architect. My background by the way is Director in television production.
Bottom line - when I worked in a shop where lines were strictly drawn between IA and CS, there definitely was a problem with one or both of us being over inundated with work. Although I could have helped on the IA side, there was a sense of turf wars. In the end I was the one that was laid off when work slowed down due to the client pulling back the amount of work. I find that most people in our world have interesting, eclectic backgrounds that would make sharing of roles very practical. Not only that, having the opportunity to take on different roles on different projects would help with burn-out and help to keep things more challenging and interesting. I suspect that one of the benefits of working in a small shop is that generalists are often more in demand to carry the weight. From a political point of view, that may also be a good thing as everyone can then work more as equals vs stars and plebeians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40833 ________________________________________________________________ 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
