Not an answer, but in insight to add to the conversation. Industrial Designers came about as a result of the Industrial Revolution. Using an industrial designer was one way to gain a competitive advantage. Interaction designer is a result of the information revolution. We are used as a means for an information company to gain a competitive advantage.
Things get messy when where it converges, but it may be helpful in this discussion to begin to look at the role in the business that the ID plays vs the IxD. Nick Iozzo Principal User Experience Architect tandemseven 847.452.7442 mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tandemseven.com/ From: Matthew Nish-Lapidus Sent: Thu 1/17/2008 3:42 PM To: ixda Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mac Air - What part is the IxD? that's a great question.... it's say any Industrial Designer that's really passionate and good at their job would be part Interaction Designer, or at least Interaction Sympathetic. Which begs another question: Is any designer (visual, industrial, etc) who is passionate and talented part Interaction Designer? Is it possible to design and aspect of anything without thinking about the interaction and the user? (i'm not claiming to have the answer :)) > 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 -- Matt Nish-Lapidus work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.bibliocommons.com -- personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.nishlapidus.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 ________________________________________________________________ *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
