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Getting Hired: To Work at Ziba, Be Honest, Show Process and Sweat the Details
I couldn't disagree more. First of all, prototyping and designing are two different jobs even if both work hand in hand. In France they each have separate job codes. Secondly, I really don't see how building makeshift components just to hold something between your fingers helps the product development process. The process is CAD design which is numerically sent to DFM or prototyping, period. Thirdly, hand modeling is a step that is becoming obsolete with rapid prototyping which brings me to the final observation : If you want to hold something, that leaves buying a 3D printer or outsourcing with a lab which costs money. The designer who cannot rely on their CAD model and calculations is, in my opinion, novice and not the other way around.
In the real world, most of the hands-on designers I've known refer to the goldbrick "process designers" as "turtleneckers". We even made up some velcro turtlenecks we can wear, when somebody of the self-important Porsche Boxter variety wants to buy us coffee and "think deeply" about process - as if design in and of itself offered some real value to the world.
As designers, we're either involved in providing a service to humans and/or animals, or we're simply making money by creating a false "new" every year, to make the present look "old".
"Process" as an idea, is a justification and catalyst for a world filled with products that didn't need to exist in the first place.
Just because designers make the koolaid, it doesn't mean we have to drink it.