andrea vos — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:52:59 GMT

I’ve been working in IA / Interaction design for more than 10 years and the strangest thing is that the more experienced I get, the more I’m convinced any idiot can do this work. This depressed me for quite some time; why am I doing this work and how long before they find out I’m not that good? But now I discovered that most of the choices we make that are blatantly obvious to us (e.g. to not create one pulldown with all the dates going back to last year, but to create a day, month and year pulldown to work together, smart eh?) are really not that obvious to others. They really need experts like us who work with their common sense all day (and all weekend, and all night) to point out the obvious. so now I’m not that depressed anymore, and would be even happy if someone would reinvent Visio to make it userfiendly! ;-)

(sorry for spellingmistakes, I’m Dutch… )

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