Christina, I think you are over simplifying here. If there is anything I have learned this election season is that frames, rhetoric, semantics, and titles mean EVERYTHING. They set up the mental models from which we construct our world view, and they create our own self-identity from which we juxtapose ourselves against that world and the other people in it.
1) Why is the only way up, out? Why can't we do what Luke Wroblewski and others at Yahoo have done and go the route of the Design Principal, the non-management role? 2) "Design" is not just part of a title, it is philosophically a different way of thinking about problem analysis and solving. Having your title reframed to suit corporate culture may be short term effective, but long term you may not be sought after for that difference. Historically, (yes, I'm about to sound paranoid) this has been the chief way to assimilate and acculturate groups of people into the larger cultural mindset. I'm a very politically minded individual and I believe that design is more than a tool for problem solving to be honest, but actually is a core professionalization for non-linear thinking. In a world where linear analytical thought is taught to our young ones at younger and younger ages, destroying their creativity, I for one want to keep every last bit of it in all symbols. 3) I have to ask another question. Can we be effective as designers without being at the C seat? I have seen tons of great design work done outside the corporate executive office. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33964 ________________________________________________________________ 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
