Last night I was jogging at the gym when all of a sudden Donald Norman flashed up on the TV above my head. He was interviewed as part of a segment called "Get me the Geeks!". It was all about the various bits of technology in our lives today, and the tech support required to service users.
Here's a link to the segment: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3657727n I'm sure there will be other questions that pop up from this, but here's mine: As Interaction Designers, how are we responsible for the products we work on fitting in with the bigger sphere of products out there? I agree with the segment's sentiment that there is simply *too much technology* out there for everyday people to deal with...so creating usable & useful individual products may not be the answer. Can we (as IxDers) really make a dent by fixing one product at a time? Or should we try to take on the whole technology-focused culture? Or are these things really at odds with one another? Discuss. Josh -- http://josh.ev9.org/weblog ________________________________________________________________ *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
