This is particularly such a hard topic to discuss. There are many nuances being outlined here that might be missing to the average designer.
People should know that Jim is talking in terms of decades of experience in his personal practice. I also want to re-iterate when he says that only some 5% of designers can really effectively practice like this. These 2 elements provide for me a big question of "scale" for the design community and path. What I mean is that there is more work for designers than can be effectively supported by this design system (my overall concern w/ Apprentice/Mentor models in general--personally I think this is a personal and necessary parth to take, but only after formal education; more below.) 1) It would seem a path steeped in deliberate education of foundation of craft, theory and methods is still required before one can apprentice at this level, to be able to deconstruct the unarticulated practices of their "masters". 2) Jim alludes to the lifestyle that such a practice requires, which I find really interesting in an age of people already struggling to bring work/life balance to their universe. Is there an ethical concern for suggesting such a practice. To me RED is not a decision, or a career path or even a philosophy or method, but a career milestone. The reason I feel compelled in this direction is that the answers that Jim gave to my questions tells me that there is no structure to the education of the practice and thus it cannot be codified or otherwise repeated/handed down with consistency. Even martial arts of the most ancient variety have evolving patterns of education systems that from the POV of adjacent generations has a pedogogy and practice that is consistent and articulatable. While it is interest to know about this practice, I'm not so sure I see value in knowing about it? or even understanding it. Further b/c it seems to exist outside the "norms" of practice (just statistically speaking) it doesn't seem to communicate using language that can engage the rest of the design community. I'm not her to condemn the practice, but just question it as something really parallel to user-centered design. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37626 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
