Yes, it sounds to me too that marketing should know a lot about persuasion. Of course, they may not know very well how to translate their knowledge into a web page design. Maybe this is where close collaboration helps - they know more about persuasion, we know better how to translate it into the design. Does that make sense?
Sebi On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I design these things, and I'm confident in my ability to do it well, > so why am I asking if I think persuasive elements should be left to > Marketing? Well, because it seems like — and maybe I'm just dead wrong — > that marketers would/should know more about persuasion than IxDs. I mean, > their whole careers are about persuading people to do things they may or > may > not realize they want to do, right? So it seems like they would need to be > masterful persuaders to succeed. > > -r- > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Sergiu Sebastian Tauciuc http://www.sergiutauciuc.ro/en/ ________________________________________________________________ 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