Timing this release after the storm of, ahem, activity, on the list. In this keynote from Interaction '09, Dan Saffer calls out the Interaction Design community for allowing distracting topics to consume our attention, and for paying too little attention to "moonwalking bears," the opportunities interaction designers can take advantage of in the near future.
On the discussions on definitions, titles, and similar topics,"where is this getting us?" Dan says, "The work is still there for us to do. Having religious wars about how we approach design is pointless. We need to pick an approach that makes the most sense for each project and practice professional pluralism ... we need to focus on the large amount of design work left to do." He spends the balance of the talk identifying the opportunities to which Interaction Designers should be paying attention, including other professions from which our discipline can borrow, and new interaction paradigms that can keep us busy for the next 40 years. Watch the talk here: http://library.ixda.org/node/5 Cheers, Nasir Barday Media Director Interaction Design Association ________________________________________________________________ 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