Josh, this IS our job. Shoot, you should take your question, turn it into a statement and that is our job description. Are we the only ones responsible for all of that? I hope not, but we should be leading that (I don't mean from an ownership perspective, but from an advocacy perspective ... ownership is nice too).
I don't agree that there is "too much technology". I do agree that there is too much poorly designed technology. I was just today discussing this as part of an interview for some pub and well, what is clear to me is the importance for interaction designers to design not just products, but eco-systems around the focus business models of the products they are designing. Some do this half-assed, but saying that if I just design the APIs then I'm absolved. Others just ignore this completely by designing widgets. But the reality is that we can no longer afford to design products in a bubble, and we can no longer afford to engineer innovation with also designing it. (I'll let that one simmer! mmmm mmmm!) -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24050 ________________________________________________________________ *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
