February 20th, 2009
From a Cooper interview of Andrew Hoag. Good point about product vision versus visual implementation of that vision. It’s important that the person with the passion for the product maintain their vision as they deal with designers who are creating the drawings of the product.
I was discussing the relationship with Cooper with a couple of advisors. Their initial reaction was “You should never outsource design.” After talking with them and figuring out what their concerns were, I now spend time differentiating between the product vision and the manifestation or implementation of that product vision. It goes back to the comment I made earlier about our product vision being consistent.
http://www.cooper.com/journal/2009/02/interaction_design_for_startups.html
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February 19th, 2009
I prefer the title User Experience Designer to Interaction Designer, even though defining and capturing the interaction is what we do, because user experience designer refers to the user, which who we’re creating the interaction for. User Experience Designer reminds me who I’m designing for.
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February 19th, 2009
I was recently talking to some people about the interaction design field. The position is so new that it’s known by a bunch of different titles and it’s job description is a little different for different companies. The names I’ve heard so far are Interaction Designer, User Experience Designer, User Interface Designer, IxD (the guy actually said we need more IxDs), and UX.
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