Melvin said: "You identify yourself by the various specialities you have worked in as well as academically gotten them."
Uh! doesn't this mean creating a title for yourself? I identify myself as an interaction designer b/c that is my primary specialty and what differentiates me from UI Designers. Wait! we just said we can't tell the difference ... Seriously, though. I think that we as a group are closely aligned enough to IA that we should be able to solve the taxonomic/ontological/faceted/semantical/syntactical nature of our practice and discipline. IxD is about behavior and interactions of the systems and products we design. It is a horizontal design discipline that almost every other design discipline has to engage with. it is the intangible part of the the tangible form making design disciplines out there. This is what is killing most people. Further, most of doing IxD do it as part of a practice that IS form giving, like UI Design or Industrial Design. OR we work directly with form givers in partnership (or in servitude). For those of us that LOVE to concentrate on IxD as its own separate practice and partner with form designers, this is an amazing job, but also a curse. To constantly defend the art of the aesthetics of the intangible is really difficult. This does not mean it doesn't exist, but rather a big part of our job is being able to speak, argue, define, and communicate what it is that IxD really is. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=25077 ________________________________________________________________ *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
