On Jan 18, 2008, at 7:45 PM, Dan Saffer wrote: > We're foolish and short-sighted if we think that all of our work in > the future will be traditional software and websites.
First off, I said "digital" which at this point encompasses software and such, but will become much more. (Your whole Charmr project is exactly along these lines.) But digital is just that, anything with a digital piece. If you had a bathroom mirror with a digital interface that did things like track medication intake and showed me what to take and had a multi-touch screen built-in so I could do things like watch CNN while shaving in the morning, that would easily qualify by my definition. A lot of things you see in a movie like Minority Report qualify that are not traditional software as it exists today. The future is going to be digital, so by my definition, the opportunity is quite large. Second, "interaction" that does not contain a digital component is an entirely different animal than interaction that does, especially because often it gets into issues that don't exist in the digital part of the equation. I'm suggesting that one will always be unique and needed now that the digital revolution is in full swing while the other is something else entirely that will more than likely get merged with other already established design practices or serve to only dilute the definition of the design practice, something which can hurt credibility of the those trying to practice the profession. So I hope that clears that up. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] c. +1 408 306 6422 ________________________________________________________________ *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
