Thanks for this, Will...my first reaction was more or less about how silly the article is and I started a general commentary on politics, etc. I realized that was the point of the article (to get one's gander up), so I didn't respond...
Speaking of politically charged semantic power words...I think articles like this are dangerous only insomuch as they oversimplify classes of people to those who may have an impact on design. I'm thinking mostly of executives and a designer's potential customers. Articles like this circulated frequently at my last job and folks started reacting to them with sweeping changes to IT projects. "Don't do that because the seniors won't be able to read it", "Make it look like the movie Se7en to appeal to the Gen Xers"...now there'll be "Keep it loose and make the millenials feel good." If assumptions like these were ever truly accurate, we could write most of our personas in 5 words: Type A's Yuppies Millenials Seniors Boomers Wouldn't life be grand if we all just did what are caricatures said we should? - Bryan http://www.bryanminihan.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Evans Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:24 PM To: tripodell Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] The Millenials are coming Let's not let this discussion become political or religious. Its about IxD and use of politically charged semantic power words is most unwelcome. will evans user experience architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.281.1281 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
