The definition issues keep coming up in this forum, not surprisingly. What this field is called, what its practitioners are called and who is or is not in the field has been under active debate for a very long time. I've seen people working in this area of interaction who I think would be generally acknowledged as legitimate participants in this forum and who have held these titles:
Interactive Design Engineer, HCI Strategist, Interaction Architect, User Experience Developer, Human Factors Specialist, Interaction Analyst, and many others I'm including here only those whose responsibility focuses on creating and executing interactions within an application (for lack of a better term) -- not those who are pure theorists nor those who are pure graphic designers nor those who are pure coders...etc. and I can't help wondering whether we might be able to have more common ground in our discussions if we took a step back and focused our definitions on a different level, rather than debating what may be lower-level details. I know the first rule I learned about defining things in second grade was that you aren't allowed to use the word in the definition of the word. In that spirit, I submit: Interaction Design is the creation and definition of elements and processes that allow a human being to use an object effectively. This frequently, though not always, include creating visual elements, definitions of paths, resolution of technical issues, questions of usability, and standardizing navigational requirements, as well as many other aspects. Katie -- ---------------- Katie Albers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ *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
