Hey Dave, Dan, I see your points, I think. But the issues that now result in the petition and discussion persist: it is difficult to face others (really others, not IAs or even UPAs, but DMIs, AIGAs, ACM (in general) and EICTA) when there are so many groups, titles etc. floating around.
So why centers the discussion on IAI? Because IAs are defining interactive systems just as interaction designers do, at least the Big practitioners. In UPA, you have many usability engineers who center on audit and validation, but IAs, just as IxDs, specialise in concept and definition. Even if there are different roots, design is not the only way to solve UX problems, and not the solution to all problems - even if as a trained designer, I would like to think that way :) So nevertheless, Big IA, Small IA, IxD, UID, when talking to others (as mentioned above), UX is the way to go. We need that clarification. It's not about IA vs. IxD inside the UX community, at least it shouldn't be! We need to raise awareness against others, not limit the dialogue to ourselves, our conferences and our communities. I didn't know about UXNet, maybe there the beginning of that development already is. How many people working in the digital spheres never heard of UX? Let's change THAT! milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | |||| || |||||||| | || | || +33 6 67 11 13 83 * www.guenther.cx ________________________________________________________________ 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
