No we don’t. We need to speak the language of the humanities — philosophy, literature, and architecture. There are plenty of people focused on the numbers, plenty.

Who is left to focus on the emotional and human impact to the audience if not us as the designers?

Bob Baxley Not mutually exclusive. Magic happens at the intersections. But completely agreed on the humanities. Chad Dickerson has some great perspective on liberal arts in both engineering and business practice.

Randy J. Hunt Bob Baxley Steve Jobs himself said it best: “Technology alone is not enough. It’s technology married with the liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that makes our hearts sing.” We need computer scientists, English majors, philosophers, artists in equal measure.