Re:The Larch Environment
by seanmcdirmid on Saturday September 20, 2014 @10:56PM
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My wife is a visual designer (on feature phones, weirdly enough), she isn't very helpful with my own programming experiments [1] :)
Actually, we need a visual designer who is also versed in programmer experience (rather than end-user experience) design, and I haven't found anybody like that yet. A UX designer is not some magical person who can magically do design in any domain; even HCI researchers are not a panacea [2]. Also, designs, even by seasoned designers well versed in the domain they are working in, are never perfect, there are always trade offs to be made.
Nothing is ever finished, we only get closer to our goals that are infinitely away.
Actually, we need a visual designer who is also versed in programmer experience (rather than end-user experience) design, and I haven't found anybody like that yet. A UX designer is not some magical person who can magically do design in any domain; even HCI researchers are not a panacea [2]. Also, designs, even by seasoned designers well versed in the domain they are working in, are never perfect, there are always trade offs to be made.
Nothing is ever finished, we only get closer to our goals that are infinitely away.
[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/liveprogramming...
[2] http://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/talks/CHI2006Barista.pdf