Andrei asked: "The larger issue is actually more fundamental: do interaction designers need to have aesthetic skills?"
An unequivocal "1 million %" (to quote my American Idol Buddy Randy Jackson) YES! Aesthetics is HUGE. And understanding fundamentals of communication design (Visual, audio, 3D, spatial, etc.) is at the core of a good IxD education/training career path. As for your post following Jim. I didn't give it a full read, but what I did read seemed right on target. If I understood the spirit, I would say, that yes, IxD's have to understand and quite often DO UI Design. So is UI Designer:Interaction Designer : designer what thoracic surgeon: surgeon : doctor? Medium : discipline : category I realize this might have leaped a lot onto the conversation. But what it means is that an interface designer IS an interaction designer, but not all interaction designers are interface designers and not all designers are interaction designers. Does that work? Or did I mess everything up again. I was just trying to bring it back to the original question of What's the difference? -- 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
