On 19 May 2009, at 04:03, Jared Spool wrote:
On May 18, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
On May 18, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr wrote:
Someone who is unlikely to be great at either, even if he was
previously
great at one or the other.
This is exactly the kind of thinking that will sink the current
generation of designers, be they IxD, IA or UX.
Gotta say, I'm siding with Andrei on this one.
I've found no evidence to suggest that someone talented couldn't be
great at both, if they put the effort into it.
[snip]
I'll third that opinion.
Nobody can be an expert at everything. That includes being an expert
at all of "development" or all of "interaction design" too. Their both
broad fields that cover a lot of ground.
You can certainly be really good a enough of a subset of both to be
very, very useful. I'm seeing more folk who are good at both appearing
all of the time - coming from both sides of what people still seem to
think is a divide.
(There's also a lot more overlap between good developers and good
designers than many designers/developers think. I wish somebody would
do a mashup of Indi Young's Mental Models and Eric Evan's Domain
Driven Design for example :)
As for useful places for Joshua to look - one place might be agile
teams. Many are crying out for good UX folk who are willing to talk
development (or vice versa).
Like David said. Don't focus on the job title. There isn't one. Focus
on the role and the skill set - and what you can bring to it.
Look for T-shape people positions with "fat" bottoms to those T's.
Then be prepared to push.
Cheers,
Adrian
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