[IxDA Discuss] Coding and IxD (was: What sets the 'best' interaction designers apart?)

[Cian]

I don't necessarily know what defines the best interaction designers,
but I know that I wouldn't hire the guy who wrote the first article:
"First of all, let's take the individual approach. Every designer I
know is an artist. They paint, they play music, they DJ, they sculpt.
Most got talked into design because someone didn't want them to be
another starving artist...I do know, however, that it is horrible to
try and constrain the artistic imagination of a designer."

Cian

On 2/5/07, Chris Ryan <interactiondesign at redrooffs.com> wrote:
> A related anecdotal observation: it seems to me that the number of
> programmers who have good to excellent interaction design skills has
> been increasing in recent years. At the same time, the number of
> people who call themselves interaction designers and don't really
> have the skills or qualifications seems also to have been increasing.
> So there may be an imbalance, real or perceived, between highly
> skilled "renaissance people" who can (and do) do it all, and do it
> well; and those who seem just to be "getting in the way" by fussing
> over "wireframes" that actually represent poor user interface design.
> Here are a couple of different opinions generally on this topic (the
> second one is mine):
>
> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/curse/
> http://www.redrooffs.com/2006/12/03/user-interface-clerks/
>
>
> Chris
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