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"Ultimately, design is what drives business rules and software requirements." Completely disagree: Business Rules drive design, not the other way around. The
by blindhippo 15y ago
"Ultimately, design is what drives business rules and software requirements."
Completely disagree: Business Rules drive design, not the other way around. The article muddles together product development and design and calls it the same thing. Product development incorporates BOTH design and coding - you cannot separate the two and claim one half is more important then the other.
And has already been pointed out, there are far less developers out there then designers. Guess which commodity is worth more to the average company given this fact?
- HPBEggo 15y agoFrom experience, I would say that a very good designer is worth considerably more to a company than a very good developer. This comes largely from the fact that the beneficial cap in skill for designers is much higher than for developers. With a developer, so long as they finish everything on time and it works as intended, other concerns are largely irrelevant. With a designer, there is always room to improve, so the difference between the best designer and the next-best designer still provides some important benefits, while this is not necessarily true for developers.
- blindhippo 15y agoUntil it comes to maintenance time and you discover that your cadre of less then stellar developers has created a "works as indented" pile of excrement that is largely unmaintainable. Then the difference between the best developer and the next-best is no longer irrelevant. In my experience, design is undervalued in most software projects, but the sentiment expressed in this article is beyond over-correction.