On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:37:43, dave malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pankaj, > > I think you are over-generalizing a bit much. First off, an > interactions of any type (computer < > computer and human < > human > and computer < > human) all can be handled by an IxDA at some level.
I agree 110% with you but just like each of these interactions came be done to some level by IxD, they can also be done to the same some level by non-IxD. But solution creation needs competencies and I believe Human-Computer interaction is the core competency of IxDA and Computer-Computer interaction is the core competency of architects (software/hardware) and since all digital solutions (or for that matter any solution for the consumption of humans) have both H-C and C-C interactions designed into them, I believe both are important and play their own individual roles and in partnership. Now depending on which interaction is of more importance, it will also decide who will lay claim to be the owner of the conceptual design of that product. It would be foolish for me as an IxD to lay claim to the conceptual design of a product that is going to be 90% C-C interactions and only 10% H-C interactions. My concern is with the over-generalization that all conceptual design belongs to IxD because that really depends on the needs of a product and a solutions architect can equally lay claim to being the conceptual design owner. > But because of the large technical constraints on these systems a > solution architect as you put it is definitely a partner here as > well. > > To me the key is exactly that. Partnership. I couldnt agree more. Partnership is the key but if we make business managers the artifacts of the industrial era not required anymore, and the engineering teams as only the doers who have to follow what the IxDers decide is good for the product, we arent exactly talking partnership. (Please read my comments within the context of Alan's keynote only as my original post was within that context only). Thanks Pankaj ________________________________________________________________ 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
