“Put together a team with a great engineer, a crazy designer, a good businessperson, and a good human-factors scientist or psychologist of some kind, and put them in a room and get them to try to work together. It’s a big challenge, but they come to a point, surprisingly quickly, where they realize that what they can achieve together is much more than they could do individually.” (Quoted from MIT Review: Q&A: Bill Moggridge: What makes for good design?)
Even though I wonder why it takes a “crazy” designer (aren’t we beyond this already?) I think Bill Moggridge is absolutely right by describing the most basic form of design management. However from many conversations I have these days it still seems so difficult to actually live the idea of “Interdisciplinarity” (Have a look at the differentiation between Multidisciplinarity).
After all read more articles and essays about the intersection of design, engineering, technology & simplicity in the current online issue of MIT Technology Review (free registration required).
