[IxDA Discuss] Are interaction designers an elite class?

[Dan Saffer]

On Sep 22, 2006, at 7:09 AM, Anthony Armendariz wrote:

> If being an user experience designer makes me part of an elitist
> group than I want off and should change careers ;)

The original question here, if I'm not wrong (I'm restating), is  
whether or not interaction designers fall into the category that  
Richard Florida calls the "Creative Class." The answer IMHO is  
emphatically yes, in what Florida deems the "Super-Creative  
Core." (Along with writers, artists, architects, performers, other  
types of designers.)

Florida said in an interview with Tom Peters, "I call the designers,  
architects, and culturally creative people the "super-creative core." "

http://www.creativeclass.org/_flight_article_tompeters051605.shtml

The reason is we create new stuff out of nothing. Creativity is a  
central part of our jobs, not simply necessary to do the job well (as  
it is for lawyers, doctors, etc. in the rest of the Creative Class.

Dan