[Sigia-l] "Does Good Design Equal Dollars and Sense?"

[Boniface Lau]

> From: Listera
>  
> "Boniface Lau" wrote:
> 
> > Thus, hiring good designers into a company does not necessary mean
> > the company will produce good design.
> 
> It almost always means that. Because managers who focus on hiring
> good designers are already sufficiently enlightened and it's
> difficult to convince good designers to work in corporate cultures
> that are either antagonistic or apathetic to good design. So hiring
> of good designers are a sure sign.

A company with good designers and still does not produce good design
does not necessary mean its culture is antagonistic or apathetic to
good design. It can be due to a culture very tight on resource
management - always with too many projects but with too few resources.
Thus, designers have to make tradeoffs dealing with severe resource
constraint. Consequently, the company produces less than good design.


Boniface