Ford, HenryHR Giger On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk < aherasimc...@involutionstudios.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 17, 2009, at 5:09 PM, dave malouf wrote: > > But in general, your list is my list. >> > > If you're going to use software technology examples, considering we are > still in early stages of that tech, we should acknowledge that most of the > great "interaction designers" up until now haven't been designers at all. > They've been engineers. It's going to be like that for some time. In Dan's > list, more than half of those people were engineers first, and would > probably call themselves engineers still, not designers. > > Mike Schuster? Thomas Knoll? Those two basically made Illustrator and > Photoshop happen. Mark Hamburg? Definitely up there. The engineering team on > Mac System 7? Better toss in Andy Hertzfeld into the mix as well. Then > there's the guys behind things like AutoCAD. The engineers behind Alias, > Wavefront, and SoftImage, cutting edge 3D which is one of the most difficult > interface and interaction problems you've got in all of software design. The > original PageMaker team! Which if you can travel back to 1986 was about as > cutting edge and genre defining as it gets in this field considering what > they created, how they did on a 9" black and white screen with 640x480 pixel > resolution, and with what computing horsepower they had at the time. > > Could easily go on and on in this fashion. > > Designers like a Rand, Eames or a Dreyfuss type -- if you are trying to > make parallels to this field -- are probably just getting out of high school > at this very moment, if they've even gotten out of junior high. Until they > come along, should give the engineers who made all of this happen the credit > they are due for being great designers as well. And there have been plenty > of great ones. > > -- > Andrei Herasimchuk > > Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios > innovating the digital world > > e. and...@involutionstudios.com > c. +1 408 306 6422 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
