I'd agree, if the designer is working alone. Teams of specialists with complementary skills and good creative direction can and do achieve create great design.
Robert. Robert Reimann IxDA Seattle Associate Creative Director frog design Seattle, WA On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To further clarify: You can't look at the tasks or process or whatever it > is that you think that you do in the field and ask the question. You have to > look at what you are building and then ask the question what is required to > design it. Design in all of its forms is not a theoretical exercise. At the > end of the day, something is built, constructed, made or created out of some > set of materials available based on the design direction created by one or > more people. To create "great" anything requires a deep understanding of all > the components required to actually build that "great" thing. > > So, I think you have to ask yourself: > > Can a [DESIGNER TYPE] create a great [PRODUCT TYPE] without having [SKILL > TYPE]? > > In the case of interface and software design, the question then reads: > > Can an interface designer create a great software or web application > without having visual deisgn skills? To which the answer is no. > > > -- > Andrei Herasimchuk > > Principal, Involution Studios > innovating the digital world > > e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > c. +1 408 306 6422 > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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
