“The underlying problem is that design is a holistic discipline while data-analysis, applied dogmatically, is a reductive discipline.”
“The interplay of all disciplines (engineering, design, research, marketing, sales, QA, product, legal, customer care, etc) is where the magic happens.”
Please read the whole/old debate of “Why Data and Design Need Each Other” by Tom Chi from the OK/Cancel blog, following Doug Bowman’s departure from Google for Twitter which sparked a lot of heated discussion this week.
