I think the principle is sound, the practice as he describes it sounds a bit political.
Years ago I used to call myself an Interactive Director in order to make the distinction that I was there managing the interactive experience as the third pillar of Creative/Art Director and Technical Director. The title never caught on, but the discipline did. My main beef with Joel's piece is that he's talking about a role that interaction and user experience design covers and pinning an outdated title on it to... well, I don't really know why. To write a blog post? To try and sell a new idea? To sell himself? He's not really saying anything new. The reason projects don't have a Program Manager is because they're called something else these days. For what it's worth, I think Excel has and continues to have an awful UI and FogBugz looks like Word. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39701 ________________________________________________________________ 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
