[Sigia-l] Intelligent signs at Microsoft

[Terrence Wood]

On 16 Aug 2005, at 5:17 PM, Adam Carter wrote:

> Terrence Wood wrote:
>
>> 1. Programmers can't design, and designers can't program.
>
> While I will agree that there are many people who fit this case it 
> isn't a fact or even a good rule of thumb.

Never said it was.

> There are many cases where designers are excelent programmers, and 
> cases where programmers can make excelent designers. Just as their are 
> programers who in reality make poor programmers and designers who in 
> reality don't design.
>
agreed.

I also said:  *generally* programmers can't design interfaces for an 
audience of non-programmer types, and designers can't program. In broad 
strokes it comes down to the nature of the activity each discipline 
undertakes: programming considers edge cases and all the possible 
permutations of a system, design is concerned with the reduction of 
complexity into constituents understood by the masses.