Comments on: Do you know any Jason Frieds?

By: kellan

kellan — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:31:00 +0000

My experience is that hiring a talented web interaction designer is the hardest possible role to fill currently.

Partially because it requires a wide and rare range of talents, and partially because you have to weed through so many false hits. (everyone describes themsevles as a designer, or web designer, but what that means is all over the board)

Most frustrating for me is I’m actually fairly good at interaction design (though not actual design), *unless* I have to code it. For some reason I find I can relate to a tools as a user, or as a programmer, but not as both.

By: Lars Pind

Lars Pind — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:31:00 +0000

Did you read "The Inmates":amazon:0672326140? It’s _exactly_ one of Cooper’s points, that you can’t do both interaction design and programming on the same project, because programming makes such demands on your brain. And because when you brairstorm about options, you can’t help but think about how hard it would be to code.

I do see, however, that as frameworks make it easier to develop, it gets easier to do both.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:31:00 +0000

If i had found "my jason fried" i would never in the world hand him over to you ;)

But love the notion of "Have you found your jason fried".

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:31:00 +0000

The only site that I’ve found that may be a good way to find good people in the UI field is http://jobs.ok-cancel.com/

By: Jason Fried

Jason Fried — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:31:00 +0000

Just to be clear, Ryan and I work together on a lot of these things. I’ll work up initial concept and Ryan will flesh them out. We’ll then throw them back and forth. We work together. The credit is shared.