psweber

I love you.

I've enjoyed a lot about the game, but I agree with you about the story. I suffered through all the dialogue in normal mode. Franticly clicking the X on all the conversations in nightmare mode has made the game much more bearable.

This will be a good war.

Yes, everyone please stop listening to Nielsen.

Also, check out the staff section on the Nielsen Norman Group site: http://www.nngroup.com/about/people/

- 4 old white dudes - 12 young, attractive women

Some designers would love to use this tool you speak of.

The smoke weed and try a bunch of crazy things type of designer is pretty well served by Photoshop. You can hack things up easily, try visual ideas very quickly and then clean up your files when you find a direction that works.

Systemic designers would loooooove the tool you describe. Global control of grids, headline styles, body copy styles, form elements, buttons, links, graphic elements and scaling behavior. This is how they already think. Photoshop makes them update most of these things manually. Want to make a change to every page you are working on? Time for some tedious production work. Want to see how an idea would actually function? Too bad.

Note: Smoke weed designers are not to be underestimated. They come up with things that systemic designers never would. You might want a smoke weed designer working on your branding and a systemic designer on your web app.

Mind blown. Also, I hate that you might be right.

Ender's Game was my favorite book when I was 12, so I read a whole hell of a lot of Card's books before I knew anything about his personal beliefs. I tried so hard to think they were awesome, but everything after Ender's Game is pretty uninspired.

Well said. The misuse of the word design is ubiquitous.

I just looked at the Designer Fund thing for a second, but I noticed a headshot of Luke Wroblewski on there. He co-founded the IxDA, wrote the books Mobile First and Web Form Design (both awesome), and then was co-founder and chief product officer at Bagcheck (that got acquired by Twitter). He's creating value as far as I'm concerned.

This. Definitely.

Does anyone have experience using Balsamiq for large, complex projects? Had success using it for client work?

My company is pushing for everyone to use Axure. I hate Axure.

Great point. Terrible positive example.

Designers and engineers have a codependent relationship. Either party can (and should) learn to do what the other does, but a single person mastering both fields is pretty rare.

I've see a lot of hostility between designers and Engineers. Engineers can feel contempt for designers that dictate functional and UX decisions (often without understanding the ramifications of their choices). Designers often feel contemptuous towards engineers that are getting paid 2-3 times their salary.

We probably all want to be on collaborative project teams. I wish they were more common.

You are probably right. Everyone in this thread seems to be agreeing with each other. We're just discussing semantics.

"no, designers don't need engineers. a project needs engineers just as a project needs designers."

This.

You, too ;)

This is clearly a quagmire, but I guess I'll continue. Comparing NHL 12 to NetHack is a crime. You are a criminal.

Also, Total Annihilation was pretty good. Oh course, it's no NetHack.

Knowing how much time, experience and knowledge it would take to ascend even once, I know you have played a hell of a lot of NetHack. It's a great game. Just admit it.

It might be helpful for developers to have a better idea of the type of design they need for their project. In my experience, when most people talk about designers, they are talking about visual designers. Open source needs help with visual style, layout, graphic elements and branding, but I feel that UX/interaction design is needed much more. Designers are rarely masters of both disciplines.