Dave Great post, thanks -- really interesting perspective!
And as a professor you're actively shaping the market/profession, as well as responding, as I suppose we all are :) Susan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Dave Malouf <[email protected]> wrote: > Susan, > > I don't think this is an all or nothing thing. I am responding to > this thread and people reflexively condemning these types of job > descriptions. I used to be one of these people who would stand up on > the soapbox on challenge the requirement of visual & even prototyping > skills along side interaction design skills that you listed. > > Having dug deep into recent EDU changes this past year I have seen > students who do amazing work as conceptual and analytical designers > who also have the skills to visualize and execute their concepts into > prototypes. Are they doing production code? probably not, but they > aren't that far off and if I literally went across the street to > another program at my school they could. And I know that SCAD is not > alone in having programs of such breadth and depth. > > So my message is more of a warning, than it is a proclamation of the > way it has to be. It is a complication for those of us (yup, me too!) > who after 17 years of doing conceptual and analytical design have not > really learned how to master prototyping at truly high fidelity of > both look and behavior. > > if I was to make a prediction for the next 5 years, I would say that > the breaks are going to exist mostly between researcher, ux > designer/developers, and then business logic developers. but in many > cases the researcher and UX designer will be maintained through > visual and non-production prototyping and then there will be a UI > developer (using software as he model). > > I also don't think this is going to be uniform across all design > theaters. Some will offer things the way they are now. Others will > come up with new formulas that fit their needs. The reality is that > there is no single way to break these down. So much of it is > contextual. > > But what I didn't like in this thread is the de facto condemnation > and cynicism of this approach that is being attacked. > > Hope that helps to clarify. > > -- dave > -- dave > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=49535 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Susan Doran 55 Morning Street Portland ME 04101 207-774-4963 (land) 202-296-4849 (cell) /susandoran (facebook) @susandoran (twitter) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ________________________________________________________________ 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
