On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:05:08, Jeff Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Pankaj, > > > The question I really want to put out is, whether it is > > justified to credit the whole making of Mac Air to a > > group of Interaction designers who mostly gave it the > > Visual form. > > I don't credit the visual form of the Mac Air to Interaction > Designers. In an interview in the NY Times, Steve Jobs mentions going > through roughly 100 design prototypes and then wondering if they could > fit a computer in there. That was primarily Industrial Design in > collaboration with Engineering. > > pankaj wrote: > > What part of the Mac Air belongs to IxD? > > To me, the most significant contributions from an Interaction Design > (IxD) point of view are the remote disc feature, the multi-touch > trackpad and (assumably) a works-for-sure power/reset key. > > // jeff
So whats the dividing line between Industrial Design and Interaction Design. I would tend to think Industrial Design is about hardware and Interaction design is about software but I am not sure if it will survive a critical debate. On slightly different lines, Industrial Designers do the form factor and Interaction Designers do how that form interacts with the user but then again the lines are so blurred because you cannot do one in isolation from another - I mean not even sitting at two different desks involving two differnt people. I mean think about an Industrial Designer who designs an electrial switch just for the form factor without the knowledge of how the user is gonna use it , is it even possible in a real scenario, and if he indeed knows how the user is gonna use it doesnt he become an Interaction Designer as per the definition :-). So where is the line? Cheers Pankaj ________________________________________________________________ *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
