> In the US a very scientific approach was formed. It built off the > work being done in Human Factors and called itself HCI & its method > collection as User-centered Design. > In other parts of the world, especially in Europe, designers began > applying THEIR methods and practices to understanding this in a > fairly different way.
There are some on this list, including myself, who attended a design school in Europe. I would like to know if this is really so different from the US in terms of teaching. I graduated in Communication Design, and there was a sub-field called "Interactive Systems" where I did most of my coursework. Now, after completing, there are also "Interface Design", "Interaction Design" and "Information Design" courses emerging in Germany. They have UCD classes, we didn't. Yes, we didn't care much about formal HCI or Usability issues, in fact most of the knowledge about these things I acquired in self-study. Just as mastering some code and design apps, but that is expected from any student at my school, because classes are essentially about studio work. There are no Photoshop or HTML classes. Some theory courses centered around art, semiotics, systems and media theory. > I think that it is from here (That Euro school of design thing) that > many are unaware of, b/c they haven't looked for it, or otherwise > experienced it, but THIS is what for me has made IxDA and IxD a But why then IxDA was created by Americans, in the US? I think it is the mix of HCI knowledge and Design methods that makes the difference. 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
