On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Matthew Nish-Lapidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Dave, you've said things like this is the past on the list, and while > I understand what you're saying conceptually, there's some fuzziness > because of the comparatively young age of IxD. Are we really that Young? I mean the term has been floated around for decades at this point? Yes, we are relatively young compared to graphic or industrial design, but I really feel we gotta get over this problem. It's like some out of college who doesn't take responsibility for their taxes b/c they are "young". Feels like a crock at this point, no? I'm not picking on your Matt, but on the entire community. I think the best way to grow up is to act like it, no? A lot of people here started off as other types of designers, or as > other things all together... so if you start your career as an > interface designer, or an interface developer and want to become and > interaction designer, at what point do you stop being an interface > designer that does some interaction design and become an interaction > designer that does some interface design? I Think Todd is right that there is overlap. But I do believe that there are umbrellas and there are distinctions. So for me an "interaction designER" is someone who's primary focus is on "interaction design". So for me, this fits nicely, but also not completely accurrately as I also do "experience planning" which to me is a very strategic engagement but some would call "interaction design" out right. About 60% of my job though is "interaction design". I do direction of UI Design (the presentation layer) and I also do research and planning in the remaining 40% (not counting administrative stuff). for me I see my pole of my "T shape" as "interaction design", so I call myself an "interaction design". I will say though that the more experienced I become and the "higher up" I go in the chain the more strategic my work becomes and it becomes more about the total experience, than about the "interactions" or 'behaviors" of the solutions I work on. Is the solution to the issue to say that everyone should call themselves "X", like lawyer or doctor? Maybe, but I'm not convinced yet. There are so many different environments and different cultures and I'm not sure one solution fits all. Even in industrial design, you get industrial designer, product designer, and even a few others. Graphic designers also have "information designer", "communications designer", "typographer", etc. -- dave > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:49 PM, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does this mean that everyone is an interaction designer. Hell NO!!! > Just b/c > > you practice interaction design doesn't mean that you ARE an > interaction > > designer. Well, you can if you want. but you could also be a user > experience > > designer, interface designer, interactive designer, industrial > designer, > > architect, business analyst, etc. Or you can be an interaction > designer. > > > -- > Matt Nish-Lapidus > work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.bibliocommons.com > -- > personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- David Malouf http://synapticburn.com/ http://ixda.org/ http://motorola.com/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
