[Sigia-l] Don't go chasing waterfalls?

[Listera]

Donna Maurer:

> And it's not so hard to draw up a page that says 'global navigation goes here,
> local navigation goes there, put a news box in the middle, content block here,
> related links at the side and a search box in the top banner'.

This is visual design, whereas...
 
> But the really, really hard work is making this work for every content element
> and page in the rest of a big site, communicating it to authors etc...

...this is (integrated) Design, as in problem solving, not problem
shuffling.

Once you segregate strategy, architecture, interface, interaction and visual
design into un-integrated fiefdoms ruled by titles (whereby one title hands
in a "deliverable" to another title without having to define/refine the
up/down-stream ramifications) you enter into the evil kingdom of
"deliverables culture."

But you knew that was coming. :-)

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Ziya

Design is doing for a dime what anyone can do for a dollar.