Isn't this just delaying the inevitable? Sure, (Kumbaya!) we are all "D"esigners, great! (I actually think that most of us aren't designers, btw, but that's a separate topic).
Ok, so you get your MD (masters of design). So then what? do you go for boards in Interaction Design? Oh wait!!! don't you need to define IxD so that you can build a specialty around it? I mean how will I know I graduated from ixD (thoracic surgery) instead of ui (cardiology). Guys! please, you might not like it, but semantics are required to build, reflect, advance, and advocate for any profession. we need to be able to communicate value inside and outside and all around the eco-system. We need to be able to educate, elucidate, explore and experiment. Sometimes the definitions are "easy"; In our case it is a challenge b/c we are the bastard children of design. Now, a possible more important question is whether these conversations are useful on THIS list. The frustration level is obvious to many. At one point, we had a list called "working group" that was for the purpose of defining IxD and IxDA. We knew we wanted to keep the primary list balanced on tactics and theory, but not distracted on semantics and logistics of the org. The logistics part is well taken care of by the relatively new Board of 7 (soon to be 9). But the definition piece has fallen back on this list time and again especially over the last 2 years. To me this speaks of a great need to do either 2 things: 1) Turn the definition page on the web site into a "wiki" page with commenting capabilities. It will be the living permanent answer to this question once and for all. 2) We create a list for people like myself who will forever be obsessed with defining the damn thing! But i'm afraid these threads on this open list is turning into noise for too many people. But then again, since less than 1% of the total subscriber base actually posts anything, it is almost impossible to know (BTW the poll request response rate is even lower than that). -- 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
