On 1/25/08, Demers, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just curious how some of you would differentiate an interaction designer > from a user interface designer? Apologies if it's been discussed to > death before. Looked quickly on the discussion archive and didn't see > anything.
If you're talking in terms of selling the concept to people (which I am having to do right now!) I'm finding that picking out and using their buzzwords 'against them' is very persuasive. I'm selling IxD with two main points: 1) They align the products with processes(!) - and then you qualify this with high-level business strategy(!), all the way down to the work minutiae of the people on the coal-face (my worklplace is where clichés come to die). I then use the example of: 2) During work I staple, and remove staples from, things. I keep my stapler on my desk and my remover in my drawer as I staple far more often than I unstaple, and I want my desk to be clear. Obviously I flesh these out slightly and change the emphasis depending upon my audience, but it seems to work pretty well and seem to I get a lot of 'this guy knows what he's talking about' looks. Either that or I'm fooling myself ;) -- Alex. ________________________________________________________________ *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
