I suspect that this is also what happened to plain old "usability". It got applied to everything and as such has lost most of its meaning. I'm with Andrei here - we need a decent defination or else interaction design risks being a lost term. On ther other hand, I think "User Experiance Design" was a lost term before it was devised and doesn't have any meaning anyway ;)
For me, interaction design is about determining the optimal interaction between a person and a technology to help the person achieve their goals and needs. To help model interactions I write use cases and link these back to the goals in my user role (or Actor) description. Tim On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 20, 2008, at 4:14 PM, William Brall wrote: > > So where in this melange of different systems is the interaction >> design? It is everywhere. Because road planning and signage theory, >> and all of this are also a form of interaction design. >> > > I am often accused of pushing my own experiences onto public discussion of > the definitions of certain things. But surely this is even beyond what I'm > accused of, is it not? Attempting to redefine city planning and civil > engineering as "interaction design?" This is the kind of thing -- this broad > attempt to make the ultimate umbrella term -- is the very reason why "user > experience" never worked.( What is user experience? It's everything!) If > something aims to be everything, it's effectively meaningless for practical, > day to day work. > -- > Kei te kōrero tiki au. Kei te kōrero tiki koe. Ka kōrero tiki tāua. Kōrero > ai tiki tāua. > ________________________________________________________________ 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
