You can slice design into lots of small issues, skills, and knowledge sets... none of which are exclusive domains. I think Bill's point is that design is not one of those. While everybody relates to design and believes they have some capacity to design, not everyone has a comprehensive toolset. We are extending this conversation within my group to the topic of professional consideration. We should all be very familiar with the skillsets, responsibilities and tasks of those we work with (PM's, PJM's, SEO folks, Usability, Researchers, Visual designers,Dev guys, and Engineers all come to mind) but to presume that I can do their job with just a few rules or by reading a book is arrogant and frankly insulting.
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Michael Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice piece. That happens a lot with clients/colleagues in other disciplines > asking for simple black and white answers to issues that have a lot to do > with context and many other factors. > > On the other hand, I would be careful about seeing usability as something > that requires a lot of specific training. Even in this article Buxton talks > about how usability practices do not have to be the exclusive domain of > usability specialists. While having a deep background in human factors and > cognitive sciences can help, this does not have to be the exclusive realm of > people with specific qualifications. In fact it can be a lot better as > engineers, designers, marketing people, and poets listen to each other and > learn to speak the same language. > > . . . michael kay > . . . buenos aires / http://www.peep.org > > On 30/04/2009, at 17:53, j. eric townsend wrote: > > FWIW, that's an excellent write-up of why I went back to school to study >> design... >> >> > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
