In my assessment of this situation in the world at large, User Experience (UX, or UXD) has become the umbrella term for a range of fields that consider and address various aspects of the user experience with products and services. All the fields of UX can be defined as operating on a spectrum of skills involving Understanding, Definition, and Communication. IxD is one of the design fields in the space of DEFINITION, being a sibling of Information Architecture and Industrial Design and yet other fields.
I created a sundial model to illustrate this understanding of UX and also took it to the level of assessing the particular practices of the discipline of IxD that also lie on this spectrum of skills. See: http://ebacon.posterous.com/sundial-model-of-ux-and-ixd Along with the other materials proposed in this thread, perhaps this model can help inform your company's organization and understanding of the relationships between the larger whole & its constituent parts. Cheers, Liz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=49125 ________________________________________________________________ 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
