Andrei, if I understand your position, you're saying that a command of visual aesthetics should be core to the discipline of interaction design. I don't mean to gloss over my disagreement.
If it were "core" to the discipline, browsing through a few Tufte books as you suggest upstream wouldn't nearly cover it. It might be enough to kickstart the basic understanding I advocate for interaction designers, but not to cover the core skills of a specialization like interface design. I view the degree of focus necessary for good interface design as similar in intensity to industrial and graphic design. Comparing interaction design is more difficult; I view it as a generalist discipline. It's like comparing apples and produce. Interestingly, Carnegie Mellon had been exploring the possiblity of breaking down the walls between their degrees and simply graduating "designers" a few years ago. I don't know if they're still on that or not. // jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=25077 ________________________________________________________________ *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
