I'm going to jump back up to Peter's question and the answer is "some".
The work of Fiona Raby and Tony Dunne of the RCA in London and their entire department definitely see & teach IxD as an aesthetic cultural insertion constantly evolving the relationship between human beings and technology across form, space, and time through cognitive, emotional, and social manipulations and dialogs. I'd say most practicing IxDs are fairly narrow in their work lives. But this is no different than architecture where you have Frank Gearhy and you have the guy down the block who is designing the next strip mall. What I would say about the strip mall guy is I think while as Jorge put it, he's gotta design to reality, clients often expect flourishes and other aesthetic add-ons with their fairly functional strip mall. The flourishes are part of the budget. THIS for IxD is usually relegated to the visual or interactive designer, so most IxDs don't have a traditional background in thinking about IxD in this way. I think the few IxD programs (NOT HCI) that are out there are pushing this notion. there are so few of them (us) out there though that it is almost impossible for us to create any sort of message of critical mass that can get beyond the usual "Should I use a checkbox or a radio button?" type questions. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46168 ________________________________________________________________ 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
