On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Todd Zaki Warfel <li...@toddwarfel.com> wrote: > It's not targeted at you directly, but rather a real question, which is how > is a program manager any less likely to screw up the UI?
If you mean "less likely than a developer" then you didn't read the article. In the column, Joel emphasizes the importance of this person (ignore job title for now) communicating with users, communicating across teams, and encoding the understandings gained from those experiences into a document that emphasizes function without being too tied to any methods by which the function is implemented. He also explicitly refers to things like user testing. I just don't know (m)any programmers who have those things as their primary responsibilities; do you? I do believe that an emphasis on those things is statistically more likely to produce better design, and I'm betting you believe the same thing, no? Best, --Alan ________________________________________________________________ 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
