Re:Is an Engineer an Artist?
by Jtsummers on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @12:45PM
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Groups developing systems that interface with humans bring in artists (by various titles) all the time. In the programming world these are our UI/UX designers. In aircraft, it's the person or persons deciding on how the passenger cabin should look and feel. Same for other vehicles. For buildings, it may be the architect, but more likely a team working with them.
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Yes but doesn't this just bring us back to the "are engineers artists" question?
UI/UX designers are not "artists" by conventional definition, and architects are in such a special zone of "engineering-plus" that some of us end up called Software Architects.
In other words: his exceptional aesthetic sense doesn't make Jony Ive an Artist except in a let's-decide-what-an-artist-is discussion. Which this is, of course. :-)
I was responding to your question here:
Wouldn't it be cool if engineering projects called in a team of artists?
Regarding the general debate here of engineer vs artist, I gave up on it. We have to first agree on what is meant by "art". By some definitions, engineering is very clearly art. By others, it's very clearly not.