[IxDA Discuss] How to hire a good IxD

[Muntone, Jim]

Funny, but a lot of the description below struck me as (reading between
the lines of course) to mean 

"the ability to make something out of the poor documentation and flimsy
project definition that your sales force/account team and/or business
owner is going to dump on your desk before they leave early on Friday to
go play golf..."

Or maybe I've just worked at too many interactive ad agencies :)

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1.The ability to understand the context or circumstances of a design  
problem and frame them in an insightful way

2.The ability to work at a level of abstraction appropriate to the  
situation at hand

3.The ability to model and visualize solutions even with imperfect  
information

4.An approach to problem solving thatinvolves the simultaneous  
creation and evaluation of multiple alternatives

5.The ability to add or maintain value as pieces are integrated into  
a whole

6.The ability to establish purposeful relation-ships among elements  
ofa solution and between the solution and its context

7.The ability to use form to embody ideas and to communicate their value