J Ambrose Little: "I do see some tendency to dismiss or at least minimalize and marginalize the "scientific" contributors in this space. Personally, I see value in both approaches to the problem of designing things to reach the Quality Without a Name. As a designer, I would prefer to synthesize the good in all these different approaches. I think a greater respect from all sides is called for%u2014*including the engineers* who are equally scoffed at by both the "scientific" and "design" folks. "
I can sense that there is some of this so thanks for making the point. Like yourself, I have to concur that all approaches bring value to the table. In my team, we have 3 IxDers and 1 graphic designer, and we all have different backgrounds (business analysis, programming, art, research & testing) but the point is that working together, we have a skill-set that leaves few weaknesses. Even though we're a new team, we're already producing some great and practical ideas solutions to very real problems and (I would hope) are stronger than most single candidates because we bring so many viewpoints to the process. This helps in reviewing ideas to that when we finish with our work we can be more certain that it meets all our requirements: those of the user, those of the business, those of the developers, sleekness and smoothness etc. Sadly we can't talk about these things until they've been released - I wish we had a live lab where we could put up ideas for wider examination and feedback. Anyway apologies as this post has turned into another "problems with IxD" post as opposed to chatting about stuff we do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40619 ________________________________________________________________ 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
