On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:24 AM, John Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, your "boxes & arrows" link is broken. Thanks, John. The correct link is http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/when_the_show_must_go_on_its_time_to_collaborate_or_die
I won't even comment on the irony of an IA publication breaking all its links. (Is that the ghost of Xanadu turning over?) > Which begs the classic IA/UxP/IxD question: "So, are you a Technician or an > Artist?" I prefer "craft" vs. "art". The difference is in the goal: Artists create to please themselves, with accurate or authentic self-expression one of the important "tests" of the finished work. Craftspersons create things that others will use. Their work is judged on both utility and all the subtle and ineffable qualities that raise the work out of the mundane. Randy Pausch posited a similar relationship between Design/Engineering and Art/Science. A quote from British playwright Alan Ayckbourn goes something like this: "When I give a bloke a tea tray to carry across the stage, I try to give him enough lines to get there." -- Whitney Quesenbery www.wqusability.com ________________________________________________________________ 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
