Every market since the great depression has presented business and
workers with opportunity. If the company you work for (large or
small) has been disciplined, meaning that they are conservative
fiscally, invest in research and quality process, then you will
probably be fine. For companies that have a habit of taking shortcuts
towards quick profit and ignore long term sustainability... problems
will likely to compound.
Having a diverse background can be very helpful. As pockets in the
market suffer (housing and development for example) designers should
be prepared to move to more prosperous pockets. You should balance
your 'T' shape between skill sets and domain expertise.
Expanding your tactical skill set (photoshop, html coding, etc) will
always be advantageous if you young and in a hands on role. This is
especially helpful if you are only marginally utilized within your
company. If the company you work for does not fully understand the
value of design and what you bring to the table you can expect to (de)
evolve towards a more 'production' role where simple metrics and
throughput reveal worth.
If however, you can isolate and share where you bring the most value,
you will be miles ahead when recovery comes back around. I think Jim
presented a pretty good outline of how to accomplish that earlier in
this thread.
Mark
On Oct 7, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Margaret wrote:
If you don't know how to write good HTML CSS markup, or have a good
enough grasp of JavaScript to be able to work with something JQuery,
then get some books and get to learning how to code. Axure doesn't
cut it. WSYWIG approaches to this won't cut it.
-- Andrei Herasimchuk
While this is true on one level, on another I'm not so sure.
Designers who have these coding skills are pretty expensive.
Designers without coding skills but with a solid understanding of the
technologies can still help an org out in a very beneficial way, and
at a lower cost than a developer/designer.
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