Patrick, I think what Chris, Andrei and I are saying is that hiring tomorrow will not be like hiring from today.
-- I disagree. While some of the new grads may have all of the skills listed, that list is fairly daunting for the majority of the IX/UX community. This is an issue that I've seen in the past where they had to separate my role into two roles because they couldn't find anyone who had the skills that I had from a technical standpoint, and this was actually something that my manager said to me, that it was almost too hard to set up a team that was oriented this way: to hire people that had all of those skills, because they were too expensive, or too hard to find. Again, it's how large of an agency you decide the build, and the culture. Most of the agencies I've walked into or worked with could never go with the model of hiring ONLY people with ALL those skills, because they would soon be out of business because they couldn't scale. A business decision vs. a resource decision. --- Personally, if you are hiring, I'd look to hire new grads more than experienced folks, IMHO depending on the size of your team and your current league of managers. --- This is hard. If you're working for an agency, The clients expect to have great talent, thus making it hard to bring someone in to train. If you're working for a company, most companies don't have UX teams large enough to support this. --- I can fly through Visio, Omnigraffle, InDesign. The trouble with most of the interactive applications like Flash is that they are becoming more and not less complex (Actionscript 3). I don't want or think I should need to learn object oriented programming to communicate an idea. I'm not against using a Fireworks (will take a look at it), but for the purposes of communicating an idea, it doesn't have to be perfect, just enough to get the programmers moving. Our work is about communication and making decisions on the appropriate tools, not generating pixel perfect designs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
