I had a talk with the director of Sidekick Studios.
The chat made me think about generalists and specialists.
For me, designers are generalists. They research, think, and come up with ideas.
These ideas are discussed and passed over to specialists in order to realise them.
I think I'm a designer who always long for being a specialist.
What I do at Sidekick is pretty much about bridge specialist and designers.
I discuss ideas, and visualise it by drawing, rendering, and rapid prototyping. Then pass them over to specialists to
produce them in a proper industrial way.
I love prototyping because of the fact that we can discuss ideas forever, but these prototypes clarify actual issues, and at the same time, develop or even expand ideas.
When it comes to taking a job, however, there are a binary perception.
Designer, or Specialist. There seems to be nothing in between them.
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