A few words about my experience of being a UX designer and a front end developer ( I did it recently in a startup for several years)
I understand Robert's answer as it is difficult to *excel* because you don't have time to. You do both jobs but you don't have double time to do it... It is my personal experience. It is very time consuming to do your job very well, keep up with the state of art when you work in two different fields. On many projects, in real life, there is often not a lot of budget and people cannot afford excellence...So you do your two jobs as best as you can, and from my experience people are eventually very happy (because the user experience has been designed...) Currently, I'm working on a project where I'm not doing the coding, I'm focusing only on UX, and my design are better only because I have time to do more research, iterations, testing... Pierre PS: as previously said, it is very very useful to have both skills (for communications with developer, understanding constraints, building prototypes,...) ________________________________________________________________ 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
