Embedded Systems Design
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bumping up and expanding on the point of interest....
OK, so I knew the guy, who was involved into the interface design for Mercedes and Blaupunkt navigation hardware. I knew him not very well, though we have met couple of times at his office. He never looked like a programmer and I am pretty sure he didn't do anything with C++ or any other coding language; he was more into the graphics part of the business. Typefaces for the screen, icons, probably screen sequence design as well. The last time I've seen his table, he was working on an interface and there was a bare LCD screen on a circuit attached to his Mac and he explained, that this will be a navigation system for a Mercedes one day.
That was, like, 5 years ago.So what does the process look like these days? Say, a programmer comes to a designer and says he would like to have a kick-ass interface for a handheld. What would a designer need (software, hardware, skills?) How would the processes of designing and inplementing the UI split between the two? How one tests what the other has done?...
I know how this sounds — and this is exactly it. I have no clue, and I want to know.