Mark S on the omni person type: "Those who choose to have control and do everything... interface design, coding, marketing. Typically this gets you a mediocre product that is of limited use."
I feel the problem is not so 2 dimensional. If a team avoids single points of failure in their processes you can leverage omni types. No single omni-type should design-implement-test their work alone. No matter how talented a person is, they solve problems based on their experience/perspective. Peer review is critical in both omni & designer/developer teams. It goes back to a golden rule of development: never build and then test a system with the same tool. Faults or flaws in construction will not be caught in qualification. A small organization may not have the resources to afford the clear benefits of separate specialists for design & implementation. That, however, does not mean they will inherently create 'mediocre products'. p.rocess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=21232 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help