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This article from Bill Kroyer is a bit outside the IxD field, but there are some interesting parallels to some of the struggles we experience between design and development.
…the master is the vision and the servant is the technology.
There has been this battle ever since I've seen these two working together in Tron. It's natural, because much of the work we do is technology based; it's also natural that the toolmakers believe that they are the best ones to use them, but it doesn't work that way. You go to hear Rubinstein play, not the guy who made the piano.
It's one of those things you have to be sensitive about, because you have to appreciate the skill of the person who knows how to use the technology. But there has to be a level of judgment about their ability to use it with artistic vision.”
Technology leads artists to cope in many different ways. One is by learning how to use the tools...
