Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best Country for IxD

2009-01-16 Thread Itamar Medeiros
I'll take a different twist and say that different countries will foster strong design niches based on (a) the strongest local industries located there, and (b) the opportunities available for the designers; An example: Brazil has (instead of Desktop Interface design) very strong web design since

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best Country for IxD

2009-01-15 Thread SteveJB
Amit, ixd would be most developed in the Americas, Europe and the Far East. For studying ixd, tt seems to be more about which university or design school (rather than which country) has the most advanced program (or at least have faculty with relevant knowledge and experience) for a particular

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best Country for IxD

2009-01-15 Thread Hemant Budhivant
i think you wanted to enquire about a culture which understands IxD better than anyone else, i think the Europeans, japanese , Singaporeans, Israelis have that culture embedded in them, i don't know if u have visited these places or not? but if you do research you'll find out that usability , user

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best Country for IxD

2009-01-15 Thread Karri Ojanen
Amit, I understand what you're asking and find it interesting to look at different countries and cultures in regard to their approach to design and IxD UXD. However I think it's really easy to draw generalizations in this discussion that are possibly as far from the truth as a couple individual

[IxDA Discuss] Best Country for IxD

2009-01-14 Thread Amit Patil
Hello Everyone, Interaction design as most of us know is not understood by everyone. However if we look relatively, the term is well understood in some countries while other places its completely absent even on corporates.Although many firms must be practicing IxD under different names.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best Country for IxD

2009-01-14 Thread Jarod Tang
Interaction design as most of us know is not understood by everyone. However if we look relatively, the term is well understood in some countries while other places its completely absent even on corporates.Although many firms must be practicing IxD under different names. Considering a global

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best Country for IxD

2009-01-14 Thread Amit Patil
Hey Jarod, Agreed at a more core design understanding, no country is good or bad for designers. However what i was trying to ask is that certain design skills are well understood in some areas while those are less understood in others. Like if u consider the idea of design among some people in

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best Country for IxD

2009-01-14 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Amit, try to list some ... ;_; for mobile, maybe japan can be one of the best (i'm not a japaness), :), for web and pc, maybe u.s. can be the best for watch, maybe swiss/japan can be the best for service, England or swiss(where the public service is amazingly good)? But i'm still not

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best Country for IxD

2009-01-14 Thread Amit Patil
Thanks Jarod, Seems i somewhat got the info i was asking for. Like u listed the domain areas of IxD with respect to mediums. I would love to see certain responses from others like that. Like where is IxD research going on in insttitutions across the world. For example media labs in devices or