That metatools guy that did kai's power goo. Those interfaces were amazing on mac os 7.5.3 3D has come along way since ray dream designer and specualr indiniD. I think 3DS max has the 'best' ux going on these days even though it is PC only.
I agree, the clone wars were minimal when bryce and metacreations were making the wow UI's. Autodesk kills it. Their products are real tools that meet real needs. On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Angel Marquez <angel.marq...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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
