But Paul, you missed the first part of the post, that says its not about individual tasks, but about a defined discipline. Graphic designers in some organizations do everything you describe, or better, I also do project management and contract negotiations, but that doesn't mean they are part of the discipline of interaction design.
When trying to define a discipline as opposed to a set of roles for completing a job, you need to take YOU out of the equation. Why? B/c at TandemSeven a "User Experience Architect" (no-less) does all the things you mentioned, but a "Human Interface Engineer" or a "User Interface Developer" may share have a completely different set of tasks, where a sub-set overlay against yours. A back and forth debate where people constantly say, "But I DO this" will never lead to a cohesive and coherent definition of a discipline. We must acknowledge the interaction design is being born out of other practice and quite frankly other communities, and in so doing will will HAVE to have overlap with those practices and communities. What is powerful about all this is that interaction design as a distinct discipline (not practice) informs form-making in a valuable way. Of course, as practitioners we do more ... but that is that we do MORE than interaction design. That's why you have the great title of User Experience Architect, not Information Architect, or Information System Designer, or Researcher, etc. Those are the many roles and disciplines that make up who you are, but it doesn't mean those disciplines are roles don't have a distinctiveness of their own. (yes, that last phrase wreaked of Star Trek First Contact, I'm sorry.) -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=23732 ________________________________________________________________ *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
