Hi Don,
I dont have the time at the moment to contribute much in depth to this discussion. Deadlines etc…
But you might find it useful to follow a strand of thinking the has been very important in the development of Information Design as a professional design practice. It relates specifically to the issue of specialist vs generalist knowledge, and it revolves around the idea of a Transformer. See the url below and some of the other material on the same web site.
http://www.isotyperevisited.org/The%20transformer%20revisited.pdf
David
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