Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Constituents of a dream team :)

A list of different skill sets I would like to have in a dream (design) team - if I ever created one myself :)

Industrial Designers
Interaction Designers
Graphic Designers
Fashion Designers
Copy writers (the likes who can create advertising punch lines to writing fiction)
Illustrators (the likes who can make comic strips)
Story tellers
Film makers
Photographers
Game Designers
Animators
plus a bunch of crazy, creative programmers
...
...

The aspect about demographics

When we go out to do research, we often meet professionals in the age group of 30-50.
Many of us in the design teams belong to the same age group.
Ironically, the solution is targeted to be used by the future generation. 

While I talk to a current user groping with this sudden boom of (e.g.) social media, I need to design a solution for a generation that pretty much grew up with it - cannot think of a life without it. Currently, this future generation is perhaps in their teens or getting a higher education.

Although, there are lot of talks about the aging populations, the new workforce etc. we spend so little time gaining a better understanding and insights into this potential new workforce.

Wouldn't it be great if we could invest time interacting with university grads etc to understand how they perceive their work places, work practices, tools etc.