> On 24 Apr 2009, at 15:52, Jonathan S. Knoll wrote: > [snip] >> >> My experience, in both agencies and large corporations, is that the >> front-end team tends to be semi-autonomous, but organizationally closer >> (and >> often beneath) the back-end or systems teams. Ironic, since the good ones >> tend to be more philosophically aligned with Design teams. > > [snip] > > That's interesting. My experiences with the org-chart split is about 50/50 > design vs systems. UK/US difference maybe? > > Adrian
Perhaps, but I've found it to be about 50 Tech/Engineering, 25/25 Design and Product/Marketing. I think this is very much variable from company to company. Almost all of my friends in SFO, for example, own an entire vertical of their projects/products -- from back-end to IA to front-end. It ~blows my mind~, and some are miserable about it, but I don't get the impression it's a Bay Area USA methodology. Er...is it? I didn't find the initial question condescending, speaking as someone who came from doing front-end development exclusively and gradually moved into more conceptual design, as Dave mentioned. In this case, 'just' speaks to me as 'only thing done', much as my best friend "just does Oracle implementations." The companies with which I worked moved in that direction chronologically as I went along my career path: just HTML/CSS/Javascript, to doing front-end production code and IA/IxD, just using HTML/CSS/JS/Flash for prototyping and presentation to not doing it all all except as an artifact of particular programs such as iRise or Axure. I like how various tools can help me reach certain ends, but sometimes...I just gotta whip something together by hand, both for a particular end and so I don't lose my edge. Scott On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Adrian Howard <adri...@quietstars.com> wrote: > ________________________________________________________________ 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
