[Sigia-l] Computer scientists and engineers thinking about useracceptance and social adoption?

[Billie Mandel]

I'm with Andrew on this one.  For instance, I'm not an engineer, but I
need to speak enough engineer that I can work effectively on a
multidisciplinary product development team. 

When I hire for my own group - or help hiring for the other disciplines
on my product dev team - I try as much as possible to find people who
are 'multilingual' in Interaction Design, Visual Design, Engineer, and
Business, but who have 'native proficiency' in one area.  This helps our
product teams work together more agilely (both with a big and small "A")
and be less siloed. 

In other words, the engineers I work with - or the product managers, etc
etc -  don't need to share my competency in my area, but they do need to
understand what I do, why I do it, and why they should care what I have
to say - and vice versa.

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Billie Mandel
Manager, User Experience Design & Research
OPENWAVE
billie.mandel at openwave.com


-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On
Behalf Of Andrew Boyd
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:09 PM
To: Ziya Oz
Cc: SIGIA-L
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Computer scientists and engineers thinking about
useracceptance and social adoption?

On 7/18/07, Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 'Having a good idea' and being able to integrate it into the
systematic
> design, arch and UX of a product are two different things. I too have
my own
> good ideas about medicine and I do share them with my doctor but, in
the
> end, I expect him to design the remedy to my medical problem.

Ziya,

the key thing for me here is that you are aware of when you need to go
to the doctor - by training middle managers and baby engineers in
UCD101 we do not make them Designers - we make them aware of the
necessity of Design.

Cheers, Andrew
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Andrew Boyd
http://facibusreviews.com
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April 10-14, 2008, Miami, Florida

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