As Joel mentioned one of my books in his post, I wrote a follow up on my blog:
http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2009/program-managers-vs-interaction-designe rs/ But the question I have for ixda is this: I want some pointers to give to PMs and managers who realize they need to hire an interaction designer. How do they find them? What questions should the ask? If they're ignorant about design, how can they spot a good one? Etc. So far I haven't found any good, well written tip sheets for this situation and I think it's important. I'd like to link to them if they're out there. Any recommendations? Remember: I want something written for a manager or tech lead who knows nothing about interaction design, but suspects he might need to hire a UX designer. Cheers, -Scott Scott Berkun www.scottberkun.com -----Original Message----- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Milan Guenther Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:23 AM To: disc...@ixda.org Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the 'Program Manager' role does UI design... ???? This post and the reactions on the list demonstrate very clearly the need for intense communication to related communities. I am working mostly in enterprise environments in Europe, and there it is still quite normal that UX work is been done by business analysts and developers without naming it UX or anything similar. More than 50% of my work consists of educating clients and partners about my profession and its value to an IT project. Some ideas from posters before point in the right direction, such as - giving an appropriate response to articles like this - less IxD/IA title and competency wars (noone out there understands the difference anyway) - approaching publications such as CIO and magazines related to software developments development What else can be done to raise awareness and to simplify/communicate the message? milan -- ||| | | |||| || |||||||| | || | || milan guenther * interaction design p +49 173 2856689 * www.guenther.cx ________________________________________________________________ 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
