re:- the tough part is framing the problem and solving it. I can find people to prototype an idea anywhere - and for cheap.
Right, the peons, er, coders... Let them eat SOAP! Chris Boese, I'm all ears but wonder, persnickety-style, if you're blending two issues -- what comprises interactivity, and whether interactivity has something inherent to say about the high-low culture "divide" (which perhaps is mostly economic remnants of its old self by this point, no?) -- that muddy each other. Lots of people have had plenty to say about the "open work" and the role of the audience; really music might not be the ideal example of "static output" since as a field it pioneered (think of Bell Labs, or just John Cage) so much of the interactivity playbook we take as $$ today. I don't think that has anything inherently to do with what's good or bad about the museum/gallery/your-and-my wall spectrum. That's a tastemaking system -- connoisseurships, maybe -- and hey, to each her own. Why not? Yes, I do think it's interesting to force designers to think like artists sometimes, much as the reverse is certainly true. Visual designers are supposed to be visual thinkers (and with an emphasis please on think); interaction designers do their thinking with interactions. Coders think with code. So too for -- if I may lift a thread from way back just for demonstration purposes -- architects: they think with space (e.g.). Now, as I understand it, in order to do so they have to know not just CAD but materials, lighting, some mech-e (load bearing, anyone?), other maths, zoning law, other arts, etc. Yes, they specialize, and partner, but ultimately an architect not at home on the building site is a poor one, in the sense of, incomplete. So a category question, then: are Master's level(!) interaction designers who can't prototype(!) their interactions, really designing them? Or are they just managing somebody else's talent? Al Matthews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=23446 ________________________________________________________________ *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
