Andrei's requirements: I can perform most of those tasks to about a 90 percent level (don't even ask me to do high level actionscript though). But, as a person who has hired for UX positions, the requirements described there are impossible to hit in any one person, except for the lucky few (a few on this list).
In fact, in my time of building a team of 25, I would have found exactly one person that could have fulfilled those requirements, and that would have been me. We need to have realistic expectations for who fills the roles and what they can do, otherwise we fail in front of our software development peers. For example, we wouldn't expect a software developer to be an expert DBA and an expert in system administration while being a rockstar coder. They exist, but not in the levels needed to support what was just mentioned. And, to the benefit of software developers everywhere, team managers divide up the roles logically because they have figured out how to make the divisions. And that's the crux of this argument and probably why we struggle with the role. While some of us can do many of the different tasks and roles, expecting the whole IX/UX community to be able is not achievable. We don't like to be put into a box, but we have to so we fit within team structures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
