At 12:50 PM -0500 12/13/07, Jack Moffett wrote: >I believe the degree is officially in Graphic Design-it is a Graphic >Design program-but the project itself is certainly an interaction >design project.
I would expect an industrial design student to create a beautifully crafted model of an intended product, say a scale model of an automobile, plus a written rationale for the design. But I would not expect the student to produce a fully functional product (say a driveable automobile). I would expect a naval architecture student to produce a blueprint from which a ship could be built, and perhaps a scale model of the ship, but not to build a full-size, seaworthy vessel. I would expect a traditional graphic design student to design something graphical, say a packaging concept for a line of toys, and to execute the design in a well-crafted set of comps. Perhaps since your graphic design student has chosen to design something interactive, she should create a beautifully crafted model of her design, and accompany it with her research and rationale. In this case the model could be the kind of (visually) high fidelity mockup or prototype that is often done in Flash (or previously in Director) to give demos to executives and venture capitalists (high level decision makers) of the intended product. In this way, the student would have be able to demonstrate the appearance and interaction style of the design, without having to create a "prototype" with complete-enough functionality for user testing. The "design" student should certainly not have to "implement" the design. That is the job of the computer science student standing before a thesis board in the next room... What do you think? --Bill Fernandez -- ====================================================================== Bill Fernandez * User Interface Architect * Bill Fernandez Design (505) 346-3080 * bf_list1 AT billfernandez DOT com * http://billfernandez.com ====================================================================== ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
