Re: UKNM: Spilling

[duncan]

Have to agree with Sam on that one.  In my experience having a functioning

body made up of multidisciplinary parts has served to increase the levels

service offered to clients.


Taking studio members to meetings, having people in the studio who can

make suggestions for altering copy based on their extensive knowledge of

the client, coupled with account handlers who know how to hard code HTML

and can tell the difference between Java and Java script has served to not

only impress clients, but exceed their expaections.  Exceeding client

expectations being the key to success and client retention IMHO.


Duncan


On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Sam Carrington wrote:


> Of course you could even get your client to design and build their sites

for

> you, which would eliminate the need for designers account managers and

> coders

> altogether, and no doubt make the client very happy with their product.

>

> Is it just me who thinks that having a multidisciplinary approach to what

is

> effectively a multidisciplinary medium makes sense. Designers who can meet

> clients, copywriters who understand interface design, account managers who

> understand what cgi and javascript do and how they differ. The client is

not

> sold meaningless jargon or a product which promises what it cannot

deliver,

> the text and information design mesh well. The product is useable and

> understood by its target audience. Of course a proper QA procedure always

> helps...

>

> Heart, brain and hands should be able to communicate and know something of

> each other, otherwise the fragmentation of the body is plain to see.

>

> Ashley Pomeroy wrote:

>

> >>>>> isn't it quite nice to have literate designers?<<<<

> >>>>

> >

> > My God, no. They'd probably try to alter the copy themselves, or, heaven

> > forbid, actually make suggestions for improvement. Can you imagine? It

> > would be anarchy. With a proper content management system there is no

> > reason for designers to interact with the text at all, except to lay it

> > out. And when designers ask me for text to lay out, I provide them

sample

> > text in a mixture of Basque and Manx Gaelic, tailored to an equivalent

> > word-count.

> > I think my views will become increasingly widespread. I need to write

them

> > down.

> >

> >

> > -

> > "In the land of the blind, the blindest man is king"

>

> Ashley Pomeroy - arpslab [dot] org - http://www.ashleypomeroy.com/

>

> --

>      sam carrington  //  senior web developer  //  sensei.co.uk

>

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