On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:43 AM, dave malouf <dave....@gmail.com> wrote: > All I got to say about the PR issue is GO For it!!! > > It is important on so many fronts. I just don't think you can do it > w/o a clearly messaged consensus of who we are. > > The definition of a rose is embedded in the reality of its existence, > so its "name" will never change its sweetness. The definition of > love while more difficult has a ubiquitous ephemeral quality of "I > know it, when I experience it" that requires no hard definition. > > IxD is neither of these. It is completely intangible and completely > dependent on others. This makes for a VERY difficult thing to > communicate in a way that many can understand. > > I'd still love to put some cycles on a contest idea I had awhile > back that could be connected to the/a conference. I'd love to ask > students and practitioners to "use interaction design to define > interaction design". > > As David Cronin tweeted a couple of days ago, "Design is what design > does." http://twitter.com/davcron/status/1368548073 > > So lets do just that. I know my students would already love to be > engaged in it. > > -- dave
I sincerely appreciate that this thread has been moving in the direction of calls to action, as much as I enjoy theorycraft. The contest/exhibition ideas sounds very "this thing we have here", as most visual definitions I've ever seen for IxD ( as well as UX, IA, et.al) involves overlapping circles and moving regions - both within a particular media, industry and conceptual area and between them. While contest does imply competition, I think it's safe to say it could be shaped to be non-zero-sum, as I'm sure any aspect of any defining and angle on PR would be, at best, "most suited for this situation or product" - and who better to depict moving targets and convey abstract ideas in a visual medium than those who would put themselves under this IxD umbrella. Pollyannaishly yours, Scott -- "I have mad skills at doing spazzy things." - Janiene West ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
