[Sigia-l] Web Developers

[Bill Killam]

>>As I said, usability people work on a given/designed product, they don't
synthesize/create it.

"Usability testing" required a prototype, mockup, or other artifact to test,
so this is, by definition, a process for refinement of a design and not one
for developing an initial design.  And "usability people", while doing
usability testing are, therefore, refining a design.  However, if the same
"usability people" created the mockup, prototype, or other artifact in the
first place, then, by your definition, they were designers.

>Designers, on the other hand, should not work on a
>plan/concept/strategy/direction/etc that's handed to them. Their primary 
>job is to create it.  

So designers create each design from scratch with no reuse of concepts or
ideas - no matter how well these concepts worked in the past.  And they
never start from something from a similar domain that is close as a starting
point.  Otherwise they lose their status as designers and become... um...
"usability people"?

Bill