Dave, I may be guilty to some degree of a role-centric, rather than a discipline-centric, viewpoint. But I equally could have prefaced my posting with, "When I engage in interaction design..."
I certainly don't try to confuse client- or project-management activities with design activities, and I don't include user-research activities in my viewpoint, despite all of those being core activities in my bag of tricks. I guess the difficulty I'm having is, when thinking about the discipline of interactive design, drawing the lines between the various facets of design. For example, where does user-experience strategy end and information architecture (or interactive architecture, for that matter) end? And where is the boundary between the architecture and the interactive design? And how about the line between interactive design and design specification? And how important is it that these design activities, all with such tremendous interplay, be distinguished from one another in any case? As I'm new to this discussion group, I don't want to rehash topics that may have already been soundly flogged. So if there are any postings addressing this issue that are particularly successful, please point me in the right direction. Paul TandemSeven www.tandemseven.com ________________________________________________________________ *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
