Dan, On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Dan Saffer <d...@odannyboy.com> wrote: > That's what the IAI's job is. Complain to them that people don't know what the > boundaries of their discipline are.
I had a good laugh at this. It's become something of a joke for me to measure the amount of time that passes between the yearly publication of the IDEA conference website, and when Dave Malouf posts his first snarky Tweet complaining about the IAI overstepping IA's boundaries. Getting shorter every year! The fact is that you and some other folks who are viewed as leaders in the interaction design community have been very intentionally trying to perpetuate a very narrow view of IA, all the while pushing an incredibly broad view of IxD. (Microwaves! Power buttons! Robots! etc.) How on earth did these things get designed before IxD came along? (I looked in Amazon, but couldn't find any books on "The Interaction Design of Household Appliances". Are you sure this is interaction design?) Are IxDA constituents entirely clear on what the boundaries of IxD are? (I consider myself an IxDA constituent, and I'm not entirely clear. In a field as young as ours, I consider this a good thing.) What irks me about all this (and I'm putting my IAI hat on now) is that the boards of both organizations (IAI and IxDA) have been working to reach out to support each other better. As others have mentioned, we've already started collaborating on certain things. It is incredibly unhelpful for folks -- especially people perceived as leaders in each community -- to continue perpetuating the perception of antagonism between our fields and organizations as you are so blatantly doing in this thread. ~ Jorge ________________________________________________________________ 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
