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by Joshua Porter  |   February 7th, 2006  |  shortlink: http://bokardo.com/p/339

Luke Wroblewski:

“The problem is design is being segmented into too many specialties (information architecture, interaction design, visual design, etc.) which leaves designers without a complete understanding of their medium(s). If you don’t know your medium- how can you communicate through it?”

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1.  Pauric 1:37pm, Tue 7th, 2006

I would say that a good user interface designer has each of those (and more!) in his repertoire. The need for diferentiation in my case is various tools and methodologies required to work on each field.

Also, it just may be so that you work in a large enough team that can apply focused individuals to each part of ui design. But ultimately, someone must have knowledge and oversight of all sections.

I think this is just part of the continuing debate on ‘what is usability?’

2.  David 3:14pm, Tue 7th, 2006

it really is about the T model. You need to have good breadth of understanding of all the components of user experience design, but it is also very productive to understand in depth limited aspects of it. This allows you to provide more overall value to your team. The problem is when someone only learns one aspect at the exclusion of others, instead of learning how their differences are required for your understanding of the whole.

3.  Josh 3:19pm, Tue 7th, 2006

Peter Boersma’s take on the T Model.

Any other references, David?