[vibrunazo]

> For this you need x, for that you need y

My life experience has taught me this couldn't be more wrong.

To be a great engineer you need to be smart.

To be a great ux guy you need to be smart.

To be a great product guy you need to be smart.

As someone doing all these 3 and more. I live by the saying that a smart person can be anything he wants (intellectually). And the only limits I've seen in a smart person are only what he tries to be good at. If you're smart, you'll be good at it. That whole different types of intelligence hypothesis is pseudoscience.

[surement]

That may be, but people interested in computer science are, in my anecdotal experience, less likely to be interested in visual design (and vice versa). E.g. I can look pretty smart when talking about math or cs, but I'd look retarded if I said anything about visual arts. Sure, maybe I could try to learn a thing or two, but I've never cared because I'd rather be learning more math.