Comments on: Generalism > Specialism http://www.handcircus.com/2007/02/06/generalism-specialism/ Game Design and Interaction Design Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:53:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Allan W. http://www.handcircus.com/2007/02/06/generalism-specialism/comment-page-1/#comment-6021 Allan W. Wed, 30 May 2007 20:38:08 +0000 http://www.handcircus.com/2007/02/06/generalism-specialism/#comment-6021 Thank you, thank you, thank you. As an incurable generalist, I appreciate your comments here. I, too, miss the heady early days of flash when we did a little of everything. I still get a taste of that in the video world, but it's harder now. Thank you, thank you, thank you. As an incurable generalist, I appreciate your comments here.

I, too, miss the heady early days of flash when we did a little of everything. I still get a taste of that in the video world, but it’s harder now.

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]]> By: handcircus http://www.handcircus.com/2007/02/06/generalism-specialism/comment-page-1/#comment-1435 handcircus Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:53:01 +0000 http://www.handcircus.com/2007/02/06/generalism-specialism/#comment-1435 Thanks Christian, I'll check it out. Seem to have problems connecting at the moment Thanks Christian, I’ll check it out. Seem to have problems connecting at the moment

]]> By: Christian http://www.handcircus.com/2007/02/06/generalism-specialism/comment-page-1/#comment-1433 Christian Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:33:43 +0000 http://www.handcircus.com/2007/02/06/generalism-specialism/#comment-1433 Hi Simon, if you haven't seen yet, I would recommend you to see <a href="//stream.aec.at/webcasts/FE_2006_FASpeech_01_JohnMaeda_E.wmv" rel="nofollow">this</a> Jonh Maeda's speech. Hi Simon, if you haven’t seen yet, I would recommend you to see this Jonh Maeda’s speech.

]]> By: Liam Walsh http://www.handcircus.com/2007/02/06/generalism-specialism/comment-page-1/#comment-1369 Liam Walsh Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:39:17 +0000 http://www.handcircus.com/2007/02/06/generalism-specialism/#comment-1369 Agreed that there's more to learn, but design patterns are more 'names for things' as opposed to actual knowledge once you know and are familiar with OO. Most people I know who get up to speed on design patterns are disappointed to see all this stuff they thougt they invented right there in a book. But designers use design patterns all the time; a scrollbar, pagination, dropdown list... These are all visual design patterns, they solve common problems in an interesting way. I think Flash can work as a collaborative frame-work and have some success with this in the past. This was with xyn, though... Who is not your typical designer. My real problem with my particular industry is the separation of design and code at the conceptual stage of a project, not just the production. Agreed that there’s more to learn, but design patterns are more ‘names for things’ as opposed to actual knowledge once you know and are familiar with OO. Most people I know who get up to speed on design patterns are disappointed to see all this stuff they thougt they invented right there in a book. But designers use design patterns all the time; a scrollbar, pagination, dropdown list… These are all visual design patterns, they solve common problems in an interesting way. I think Flash can work as a collaborative frame-work and have some success with this in the past. This was with xyn, though… Who is not your typical designer. My real problem with my particular industry is the separation of design and code at the conceptual stage of a project, not just the production.

]]> By: handcircus http://www.handcircus.com/2007/02/06/generalism-specialism/comment-page-1/#comment-1368 handcircus Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:28:30 +0000 http://www.handcircus.com/2007/02/06/generalism-specialism/#comment-1368 Hey Liam, I'm glad this pressed some buttons. So long as it didnt result in any permanent damage or cause any spillage. I think the skills/knowledge will filter through eventually, but again using flash as an example I'd say that the trouble isnt in learning OO concepts any more, but designers would need to know frameworks (Flex, pixlib) and design patterns (MVC, IOC etc) in order to be able to contribute. Flash is no longer a collaborative framework (although I've heard rumours that F9 IDE will address this). Looking at stuff like unity or virtools I think this hits the collaborative sweetspot - easy to prototype, easy to get artwork in, difficult to break anything and easy to get hardcore with it. People work together. It appeals to everyone in the spectrum without the need for the fragmentarion of environment between Eclipse/Flashdevelop and the Flash IDE. Hey Liam,

I’m glad this pressed some buttons. So long as it didnt result in any permanent damage or cause any spillage.

I think the skills/knowledge will filter through eventually, but again using flash as an example I’d say that the trouble isnt in learning OO concepts any more, but designers would need to know frameworks (Flex, pixlib) and design patterns (MVC, IOC etc) in order to be able to contribute. Flash is no longer a collaborative framework (although I’ve heard rumours that F9 IDE will address this).

Looking at stuff like unity or virtools I think this hits the collaborative sweetspot – easy to prototype, easy to get artwork in, difficult to break anything and easy to get hardcore with it. People work together. It appeals to everyone in the spectrum without the need for the fragmentarion of environment between Eclipse/Flashdevelop and the Flash IDE.

]]> By: Liam Walsh http://www.handcircus.com/2007/02/06/generalism-specialism/comment-page-1/#comment-1364 Liam Walsh Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:49:04 +0000 http://www.handcircus.com/2007/02/06/generalism-specialism/#comment-1364 Hey Simon, It's me... Gordon's evil twin. Between this and 'The beauty of a Flower' you've really pushed my buttons lately. I too dread explaining what I do, it's got to the point that people from my own company act like I work in IT and treat me accordingly. Coming from an architecture background I sometimes just think that designers have set the bar too low, OO isn't that hard but you have to study and practice. Then things get easier. There's 'no silver bullet' so it takes time to learn this stuff. The technology has improved but those that have kept pace with it are almost penalised for their competence with regard to creative work. Hey Simon,
It’s me… Gordon’s evil twin.

Between this and ‘The beauty of a Flower’ you’ve really pushed my buttons lately.
I too dread explaining what I do, it’s got to the point that people from my own company act like I work in IT and treat me accordingly.
Coming from an architecture background I sometimes just think that designers have set the bar too low, OO isn’t that hard but you have to study and practice. Then things get easier. There’s ‘no silver bullet’ so it takes time to learn this stuff. The technology has improved but those that have kept pace with it are almost penalised for their competence with regard to creative work.

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