dave malouf kirjoitti 13.11.2007 kello 18:12:
> Evangelizing the discipline has always been a core mission of the
> organization for sure.
>
> Petteri, do you have any suggestions on how we can do this? It is a
> really hard piece to knock out of the park considering some of the
> more tactical things we are working on.
Fair question - I've thought this since yesterday and three things
come into mind. ("Don't ask what to association can do for you, ask
what you can ...")
1) Expand and polish the Wikipedia entries (as you mentioned earlier,
didn't you?). This is mainly a community effort, but the association
can encourage and remind us to do so. These articles can be improved,
IMHO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_design, which should be
linked to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_research
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenario_%28computing%29
... / Framework Definition (doesn't exist or isn't linked)
... / Design Refinement
... / Development Support
(I guess someone should discuss about the IA and semantics of those
terms/articles, but I'm not going to contribute to that part of the
effort. I don't care if a paper prototype is a paper, a prototype or
both. Just gimme the URL.)
Putting semantics and IA aside, I think that #1: fixing Wikipedia
entries would help our cause during year 2008. Using Wikipedia can
hardly do harm for the cause, and anybody in this list can fix an
entry without asking for permission. If you write something that is
useful for developers and journalists, they'll Google it out and share
with their colleagues.
2) We need to talk about IxD in some popular podcasts. If anybody is
friends with Leo Laporte or John C., find an opportunity to get into
their shows. Seriously. Your mother-in-law maybe doesn't listen to
TWiT.tv, but hundreds of thousands of geeks and tech journalists do.
3) Is there a trivial way to track how we are doing with Wikipedia?
For example, can we somehow make a page that displays the latest
entries _which have something to do with IxD_ ? Maybe the smart masses
who can code, could solve this for the rest of us?-)
Thanks,
Petteri
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