[IxDA Discuss] What's your Personality Type? (Related to: NowHiring Leonardo DaVinci?)

[Jay Morgan]

As for a J's appropriateness:  I can see how a J tuned to user-centered
methods would use the decisivenss & planning to sustain good design methods
in a business-centered project lifecycle.  That is, they're resisting the
business' bad habits in favor of good methods.

- jay, a borderline J
On 10/2/06, Christopher Fahey <chris.fahey at behaviordesign.com> wrote:
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> I'm not surprised by all the N's, but wow, look at all the J's!
>
> In an earlier discussion, I speculated that "empathy", despite our claims,
> might not actually be a personality trait that is very common among IAs. A
> J
> indicates decisiveness and strong planning skills, but are these traits
> really consistent with someone who is supposed to care more about what
> other
> people think? Can a J really accept a usability test's conclusion that
> their
> design is 100% wrong, or are they more likely to be resistent to the
> change
> of plan?
>
> I also am surprised by the number of I's. Again, is an introverted person
> ideally suited to empathy-based thinking? Or are they more likely to seek
> working styles where they are able to focus on a solution by themselves.
>
> I'm not saying that being an I or a J makes a person a bad information
> architect. I'm just saying that a lot of IAs approach their job from a
> perspective where putting themselves in another person's shoes and
> listening
> to other people's opinions isn't as influential as we might think it would
> be. Sometimes an IA's value is in their ability to hunker down by
> themselves, consider all of the possibilities where a design can go right
> and wrong, think of all the potential uses of an interface, map them all
> out, and to think of new ideas in that context. A lot of IA work can be
> done
> intuitively, which would explain why there are so many N's in this report.
>
> Me?
>
> I'm ENFP. (23,70,64,70)
> I'm an entrepreneur, interaction design consultant, and a manager.
>
> The test confirms what I already know: that I work best when I am paired
> up
> with a J!
>
> I also found about half of the questions to be ambigious and incredibly
> hard
> to answer, and I suppose that a lot of my answers indicated the exact
> wrong
> thing about me as a result. For example, the "Do you admire people who"
> question: I answered "can get things done" because I wish I was better at
> getting things done, but apparently that answer makes me less Feeling and
> more Thinking. Apparently if I admire people who "are warm and kind" I'd
> be
> more Feeling. These tests always kind of make me a little mad, knowing
> that
> people are actually using them to make important decisions about people's
> lives when in fact they seem so arbitrary. What does that say about me?
>
> -Cf
>
> Christopher Fahey
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Jay A. Morgan
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