Perhaps it is this very preference for "cranking out designs" that has limited the advancement of the field of design? There are, no doubt, firms with this preference, and firms who aspire advance the field. The design field no doubt requires both.
And it's "Prima donna". ;) Sean On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Mark Ehrhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "And PhD's have routinely been bottom of the wrung candidates, > (seriously) . We consider a PhD to be a negative, with candidates > having consistent issues such as - premadonna, no business sense, no > real world sense, poor design skills, poor coding skills, (in a make > it happen type of world) ." > > Why on earth would you consider hiring a PhD if you are going to > evaluate them using the same criteria you would an undergrad? PhDs > are researchers... they further the field of design. You hire them > if you need this type of thinking / work... not if you need someone > to crank out designs. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=30391 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
