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

[Robert Hoekman, Jr.]

He also basically condemns the work of IxDs and usability specialists in
favor of letting graphic designers handle everything, because the IA will
already have been decided by the back-end server geeks. I'm really surprised
ALA condones that article.

But it does make you wonder if IxDs and usability experts in general aren't
willing enough to let innovation into designs.

Personally, I'm all about challenging standards to find a better way, but I
*never* introduce something new without also providing instructive elements
to get users going. Sounds like this author thinks the only way to appease
the usability geeks is to stick with standards and avoid anything new.

Do people on our side of the profession need to be more open-minded?

-r-


On 2/5/07, Cian <cian.oconnor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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