First time I've heard the "T Shaped Professional."

That is exactly what I've been aiming toward becoming. You're a 'deviner' (developer/designer), maybe I'm a bizdeveloper.

It's a relatively old term actually. I believe the guys from IDEO first introduced it. Very valid concept though.

Tim Brown from IDEO: http://www.chiefexecutive.net/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=... (sorry for the long link.)

Which is really just another form of the quote "know everything about something and something about everything."

I've never seen it put this way, but it's quite elegant. Did you come up with that?

Brevity.

Its also mentioned in Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky.

Go to the homepage of this UX site and tell me what you think.

Yes you will probably zoom because the text is so crowded and small. Once you zoom you'll notice that some of the touts wrap wrong and break the layout slightly.

There must be an argument stating how this homepage has been optimized for some kind of reading pattern, but I just don't get it.

Is it my imagination or is every single person mentioned in the article a guy?

It didn't even occur to me there was a gender bias when I wrote this article but you are right.

Thanks for the response! It's a very good article but the gender ratio was the first thing that popped out at me ...

And talk about classic HN moments: the author of the original article thought my comment added information -- and I still got downvoted. http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=2091&cpage=1#comment-...